Hospitals battle cellphone cameras

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.

Tagged as: healthcare, HIPPA, mobile, privacy, USA