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How Can Healthcare Providers Respond to Online Patient Reviews Without Violating HIPAA?

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Current and potential patients are taking to the internet to share opinions and make decisions about healthcare providers. Good reviews can convert prospective healthcare consumers into patients, while bad reviews,...more

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All Eyes on Us - the Latest FTC Case Involves Contact Lenses plus an Important Lesson About Incentivized Reviews

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Up until now, most of the FTC’s law enforcement involving the Contact Lens Rule (Rule) has focused on sellers of cosmetic or decorative lenses. Indeed, safety concerns about decorative lenses were newsworthy in 2010, when...more

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FTC Warns Endorsements Could Lead to Civil Penalties

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Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release suggesting that the agency will be cracking down on allegedly deceptive practices in social media and online reviews, scrutinizing in particular reviewers who...more

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Help with Yelp: Posting Personal Information in Response to a Negative Review Can Land You in Hot Water

Virtually every company that provides goods or services to the public will, at some point, have a negative review posted online by a dissatisfied consumer. While such reviews are understandably upsetting, a company should not...more

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