“Doctors who use file sharing software could be putting their patients’ medical information at risk, says a recent study.
The study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, is the first of its kind to empirically estimate the extent to which personal health information is disclosed through file-sharing applications, said Khaled El Emam, Canada research chair in electronic health information, and the study’s lead author.”
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 5 March 2010
Article (El Emam 2010)
