Cleveland Clinic bans douchebags

Cleveland Clinic bans douchebags

First they banned smokers. Now: douchebags.

Cleveland Clinic’s Web police blocked the infamous site Hot Chicks With Douchebags, known for its photos of guys who aspire to a Jersey Shore kind of life accompanied by the women who love them. The site had been available to employees for some time. But that ended just recently.

“I bet you the word ‘douchebag’ was added” to the list of words flagged by the hospital’s filtering system, Cleveland Clinic spokesman Brian Kolonick said. “Maybe it was under the radar?”

Health IT is trickier than you’d think, particularly when you’re managing both employees who should focus on their work but also patients who expect to surf from their hospital beds like they are at home. Most health systems have public Internets and corporate ones. Many hospitals still wall off Facebook and YouTube to public and corporate access (even though they have an increasingly large presence on those sites).

Cleveland Clinic patients can access YouTube and Facebook. Meanwhile, employees can access Facebook. YouTube, however, is almost completely off-limits to all staff (as are sites like Skype and Pandora).

Sites like YouTube are nixed because of bandwidth issues more than for the content itself. Other sites have innocuous information but are barred because they may carry hidden software that can damage a computer system.

http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/12/cleveland-clinic-bans-douchebags-and-other-health-it-policy-challenges/

A trifecta of douchebaggery!! :rofl: