Heck, that’s not a dirty little secret. It’s widely known as a problem, but I guess VentureBeat editors were looking to sex up the headline.
Mark Sullivan reports:
Hospital caregivers typically bring their own mobile devices to work and use them to share clinical and care coordination information other members of their multidisciplinary care team. It’s a practice that screams “HIPAA violation.”
Much of this information is transmitted via text messages or multimedia SMS. This can even include images.
Read more on VentureBeat.
Update: Attorney Jeff Drummond takes VentureBeat to task for suggesting that this is necessarily a HIPAA violation.