Bloomberg BNA WEBINAR

Bloomberg BNA will hold a May 12 webinar, “Patient Privacy in the Digital Age and Disclosure on Social Media.”

In the future, there will likely be more digital disclosure of personal information, some of it quite sensitive. Facebook Inc. and other high-tech giants, most notably Google Inc. and Apple Inc., are looking to the health-care field to drive growth. Facebook is reportedly developing health and wellness applications, as well as building virtual patient-support communities. Are patients likely to adopt digital health-care initiatives by the Internet behemoths? And, if so, why? What do patients possibly stand to gain by ...