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SUMMARY:Paramedic Live Tweeting: Bioethical Violations in the Public Squar
 e - Dannielle Cagliuso - MCR
DTSTART:20180515T193000Z
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CONTACT:Stephan Ursprung
DESCRIPTION:     Social media can exert a positive influence on healthcare
 \, e.g. through the spread of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed)\
 , but it can also wreak havoc. For years\, paramedics have faced disciplin
 ary consequences due to inappropriate posts on their personal social media
  accounts. Now\, however\, controversy is developing over a different prob
 lem: the live tweeting of patient encounters by UK paramedics and ambulanc
 e services who/that use Twitter in their professional capacities. Though s
 ome defend the practice\, it is receiving strong condemnation from both he
 althcare professionals and members of the public\, including at least one 
 of the affected patients.\n     Now\, before public outcry increases and f
 urther breaches of confidentiality occur\, the Health & Care Professions C
 ouncil (UK paramedics’ regulatory body) and NHS ambulance trusts must re
 vise their policies. However\, it is first necessary to reanalyse paramedi
 cs’ obligations of confidentiality. UK data protection law is about to c
 hange due to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation\, w
 hich becomes enforceable in the UK on 25 May\, and the Data Protection Bil
 l currently going through Parliament. \n     This talk will include an ana
 lysis of these new laws in its examination of paramedic live tweeting. I w
 ill present paramedics’ ethical\, regulatory/professional\, and legal ob
 ligations in regard to patient confidentiality\; analyse recent examples o
 f live tweets \; and conclude that the live tweeting of patient encounters
  violates the ethical\, regulatory\, and legal tenets of the profession an
 d ought to be condemned by the HCPC. Though I will focus on paramedics\, m
 uch of what I will discuss is applicable to other healthcare professionals
 .\n
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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