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Mayo Clinic continues to demonstrate its leadership in social media. This month it launched its own social network for patients and caregivers, and it recently became one of the largest U.S. medical centers to establish a Spanish-language presence online.

Mobile devices have become as common as the stethoscope in patients' rooms since they're ideal for information sharing and time savings - but they pose huge security risks to patient information, experts say.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is wading into the complex world of mobile medical applications.The FDA has released a 30-page draft guidance designed to outline how mobile medical apps should be regulated as medical devices, targeting an issue that has long plagued physicians looking to adopt apps and vendors wondering how far they can go without incurring the regulations.