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Re: Palm OS and Privacy From: Dr Don Miller (drmiller@aol.com) Wed Jan 31 08:55:51 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ealgail@aol.com: "Re: World's Population" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" In reply to: Griffiths Malcolm: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" At Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Griffiths Malcolm wrote: >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. If nothing else these rules WILL make us all think more about how meticulous we are with patient information (because we have been habitually pretty sloppy in retrospect, e.g. paper diaries, charts left out/open at night, etc.). In our eNATAL prenatal care system (http://www.enatal.com), we do allow docs to download a profile of just their patients or every patient in their group as an HTML or CSV file. The HTML file is optimized for viewing on PalmPilot, and the CSV file can be used for any number of purposes, handheld or desktop. Not taking care of this information properly could lead to major havoc (and liablity for the clinician), but we're still going to make this info available in the interest of better patient care. Next message: Ealgail@aol.com: "Re: World's Population" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy" In reply to: Griffiths Malcolm: "Re: Palm OS and Privacy"

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