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Re: Palm OS and Privacy From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Wed Jan 31 08:40:06 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Don Miller: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: AFP triple re-calculations" In reply to: Griffiths Malcolm: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" Next in thread: Dr Don Miller: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" might be better to use hand held as a portal to access network server which holds your data. of course servers too can be hacked. Mal, you are spot on re: mislaid handheld. just ask the NSA about a certain mislaid notebook computer. art At Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Griffiths Malcolm wrote: > >If you carry it around with you it's a little more likely to be mislaid than >if it was a great big PC on your desk. > >I am not sure how secure password facilities are on handhelds, nor how easy >some are to guess, nor how universally people set up a password. > >I wasn't decrying the idea of using handhelds for this (I use a handheld >myself) but rather encouraging people to think about the issue. > >The same considerations hold for my resident who keeps an addressograph >label with comments on all of his/our patients in his diary - if the diary >falls into the wrong hands there's a confidentiality problem straightaway. > >-----Original Message----- >From: drmiller@aol.com [mailto:drmiller@aol.com] >Sent: 31 January 2001 14:29 >To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L >Subject: Re: Palm OS and Privacy > >With that being said, since a handheld is usually in one's personal >possession, and might even be password protected (to prevent other >personal information from being viewed like private phone numbers), I >don't think anybody is going to go after docs who have the vision to >carry relatively exposed patient information with them so they can >deliver better care to those same patients. -- art fougner, md A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote. Next message: Dr Don Miller: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: AFP triple re-calculations" In reply to: Griffiths Malcolm: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" Next in thread: Dr Don Miller: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy"

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