Imagine: doctors everywhere using cellphones.
Better yet, imagine doctors using cellphones to help care for patients.
It’s a beautiful thing, really: efficient, timely, graphical. Doctors, like most people, love the convenience and utility of their smartphones.
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But doctors aren’t like normal people. We are carefully regulated. We must abide by health care privacy rules and so, too, must the hospitals where we work. So communications about work, be it text messaging, e-mail, SMS messaging – all must be HIPAA compliant.
But an interesting collision of doctor’s privacy rights and patient’s privacy rights can occur in our new world of mobile health care computing, thanks to a kill switch present inside Apple’s iPhone and cloud computing, especially if doctors were to use an EMR app on their cell phone.
Doctors are well advised to understand how their personal smartphone and its information could be affected by corporate and patient security concerns.
Bzzzzaaaap.
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Westby G. Fisher, MD Website Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC is a board certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist (doctor specializing in heart rhythm disorders) practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He entered the blog-o-sphere in […]
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Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC is a board certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist (doctor specializing in heart rhythm disorders) practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He entered the blog-o-sphere in November, 2005. He writes regularly at Dr. Wes. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly the those of the author(s) and should not be construed as the opinion(s) or policy(ies) of NorthShore University HealthSystem, nor recommendations for your care or anyone else's. Please seek professional guidance instead.
