Smartphone use by Doctors could destroy patient confidentiality

Smartphone use by Doctors could destroy patient confidentiality:

Doctors have increasingly been using smartphones for their practices. A survey conducted among 287 doctors and 564 nurses, who toil at five hospitals in London that are part of the National Health Service (NHS) trust, found that 65% of doctors send SMS messages to colleagues about patients. 46% of the Doctors used their smartphone to send a picture of a wound to another doctor. One-third of the doctors used a third-party messaging app to share information about patients.



Making the public aware about these possible security breaches, is part of a campaign being waged by the medConfidential ...