Social Media Has Made A Great Impact On The Healthcare System

It is no secret as to how fast social media has grown over the past decade between helping connect with long lost friends and family on Facebook, getting your resume out to others through LinkedIn, sharing a video on YouTube, or even just letting off some steam on Twitter, hard to believe that so much of this we see in our day to day lives can be creating such a controversy within the Health Care System. Most of these sites listed are made into little convenient applications on majority of the populations smart phones that can be helpful as well as distracting (Gill, Kamath, Gill, 2012). Social Media has made a great impact on the healthcare system as a whole and this paper will discuss the HIPAA regulations that all healthcare†¦show more content†¦Scenario Conclusion Following with the scenario mentioned above, the nurse on shift that night did decide to send pictures of the lead singer from â€Å"Blue Lizards† in the hospital to her best friend thinking she would be the only one to see it. Well little did she know that somehow the towns leading gossip magazine the Gossip Gazette got ahold of her, on her friends behalf, offering her a nice chunk of change in exchange for her name to be kept private and the photos of Jerod. She really needed the money so since no one would know it was her how could it hurt right? The nurse came into work her next shift to the hospital under full investigation related to the HIPAA violation that was taken place on her previous night working. After hearing the news, she began to frantically look for her smart phone in order to delete the evidence, that is when she realized it was missing. Was buying a new car and paying some bills really worth putting your nursing license on the line? HIPAA Regulations Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, otherwise known as HIPAA, is the primary federal source of protection over all patients and their private information (US Department of Health Human Services). The HIPAA Privacy Rule has been put in place in order to provide all individuals a balance of federal protection to their health information as well as full disclosure of what information is in fact needed in order for healthcare professionals to