By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff

A look at the morning's top health industry news.

Avoiding HIPAA faux pas on social media: In a guest post on KevinMD.com, Dave Ekrem offers these helpful seven tips to medical professionals using social media tools on how to avoid a breach in patient privacy. Ekem manages web development and social media for MassGeneral Hospital for Children.

By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff

A look at the morning's top health industry news.

Brain injury from blasts: Denise Grady of The New York Times reports on a study out yesterday in which researchers used special sensitive MRI scans to detect brain injuries in military personnel that were not detectable in standard MRIs or CT scans. All had a diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury. The scans showed a pattern of damage different from that found in head injuries not causes by blast, Grady reported. In an editorial that accompanied the New England Journal of Medicine article, Dr. Allan Ropper, a neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, wrote that the results are important in bringing attention to injuries resulting from exposure to mild or moderate blasts that may penetrate the skull, even when there are no visible wounds.

By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff

A look at the morning's top health industry news.

Changing politics: As more doctors forgo a private practice to become a salaried hospital employee and more women are graduating from medical school, doctors' politics are changing. Gardiner Harris of the New York Times writes that, across the country, doctors are focusing more on public health and less on health care reimbursement rates. And while medical associations and individual doctors have long allied themselves predominantly with Republicans, one Maine lobbyist said he is spending more time these days strategizing with Democrats.