From Wired: US hospitals must comply with a host of privacy regulations, including HIIPA.
However, doctors want to examine images and test results on their mobile PDAs. In some hospitals, doctors are more like contractors than employees, and may not be bound by hospital privacy regulations.
Nurses and hospital staff are being fired or disciplined for sending or viewing patient information with mobile devices. Of course, there are also incidents where hospital staff used cellcams to take and send candid shots of naked patients and employees.
Tags: healthcare, HIPPA, mobile, privacy, USA
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1 Not everyone wants an iPhone // Friday, 29 June 2007, 13:19 HST @888
[…] devices they konw and trust, such as the Blackberry. the main concern is data security. As I noted on June 6, individual employees often want more flexibility than their corporate messaging system provides. […]
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