Pulsara Welcomes New Member to Board of Directors
Brian Webster, CEO of Kestra Medical Technologies, brings significant healthcare expertise to Pulsara’s Board of Directors
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James Woodson, MD
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Jun 08, 2016
A recent article published on FierceMobileHealthcare.com calls attention to the increased use of smartphones by doctors for taking photos of patients to use in case records and how this can potentially pose security and privacy threats. The article describes careless doctors who save patient photos, often with faces or other identifying marks visible, on their personal phones next to "vacation photos," and then mistakenly share them with others outside of the immediate care team or hospital.
And while Pulsara certainly appreciates the gravity of situations such as these, we also feel that this article quickly and unfairly gives smartphones, clinicians, and CIOs/CSIOs a bad rap. With a little bit of care and forethought, all concerns of patient information ending up in the wrong hands can be easily mitigated.
Brian Webster, CEO of Kestra Medical Technologies, brings significant healthcare expertise to Pulsara’s Board of Directors
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