Boston hospital blocks employees from social-networking sites
Which one could it be? It's not Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where the blogging, tweeting CEO just posted a copy of the memo from his counterpart at another hospital. He stripped out the name, so we don't know if it's a massively gigantic hospital across town, but we hear from another source that Mt. Auburn Hospital also banned its employees from the social networks last week.
Effective immediately, the Hospital is blocking access to social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter from all Hospital computers.
The decision is based on recent evidence that some employees have been using these sites to comment on Hospital business, which is a violation of the Hospital's Electronic Communications policy and a potential HIPAA violation. ...
welcome to the real world
we cant look at much over here. at least we still have universal hub!!!!!
What about patients and visitors?
Is the hospital also blocking access to Facebook and Twitter for patients and visitors to patients? That would be a huge disservice, as I'm sure many patients use these services to communicate with their friends and family.
Maternity ward riot
If so, I can well imagine there will be a riot in some circles.
Disclosure: twitter, facebook, webmail are firewall blocked where I work. Not that I use them.
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Oh I bet I can guess which hospital
Because I have been a patient at both hospitals this year. Mount Auburn allowed me access to just about any site I wanted to. They also discharged me well before I was ready to go, and had to readmit me less than 24 hours later.
Cambridge Health Alliance, the group that runs Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital and Whidden Hospital already block all those sites. They also block most blogging sites, gmail chat and webmd. But they waited until I was healthy before I was discharged.
On the other hand, I down loaded 3 movies that had just been released to theaters that week. With down load speeds so fast I never saw a buffering screen.
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BMC definitely blocked
BMC definitely blocked facebook when I worked there. I don't see why that's so weird. It's a workplace.