Facebook and the American Medical Record: A Very Fine Line Just Got Even Smaller

Abstract:     
Americans love their privacy. And yet, as the ever-increasing trend of social networking illustrates, they also love to share the facts of their lives. As a result, defining privacy can be tricky in this modern age, and often depends on the venue in which information is presented and the form it takes. In today’s world of electronic health records, straddling the fence between harmless information and sensitive data is no longer such an easy task, and the repercussions for the slightest transgressions can be severe.

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