Are you a healthcare professional? Do you have a facebook account or do you utilize other social networking sites? If you use social networking for your medical practice, then you need to make certain that your page maintains an atmosphere of professionalism. If you have a personal facebook page or some other social networking site that you regularly utilize, should you still maintain an atmosphere of professionalism or is there a fine line between that standard and whatever goes on your own page?

If statistics cite that medical malpractice suits are dropping, they still are taking a toll on physicians.

In this modern age, is there a way to have privacy while still participating in social media networks like Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn?  Should physicians have social networking pages for themselves and for their practices?  Is this a good way to keep in touch with your patients and to market to a new patient [...]

As a patient, how would you like your experience at a hospital to become more like your experience as a customer on amazon.com? Hospitals are trying a new approach to “patient-specific marketing.” Is this a good thing or not?

Should patients be able to read their doctor’s notes on office visits? This may seem like a good idea for patients to read what their physician is writing in his or her notes about their personal health and well-being. However, what happens when a patient has access to these notes and does not understand any abbreviations or “doctor-speak” that could possibly make up a good portion of those notes?

Across the US, patients are waiting in Emergency rooms longer than ever before. “From arrival until discharge, patients spend an average of 4 hours, 7 minutes in emergency departments—a four-minute increase from 2008.” In Utah, the average wait is 8 ½ hours. However, 17 states were able to significantly reduce ER wait times, by more than 1 hour from the total time in 2008.