“Physicians that use file sharing software can inadvertently expose their patients’ health and financial information, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
The study, by Khaled El Emam and colleagues at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, is the first to quantify the risks associated with physician use of file-sharing applications, which are typically used to access and share music, videos and porn.”
Article
Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers, 10 March 2010
Article (El Emam, 2010)
