Sixty percent of physicians in the US sent work-related text messages on their personal phones and 61 percent received them, according to a recent study of 97 pediatric hospitalists published in Telemedicine and e-Health. Only 11 percent of these hospitalists said their organization offered a secure texting service, but 58 percent weren't sure.
Researchers distributed the survey anonymously...
An ePHI-less text message.
Are vendors of secure text-messaging technology trying to sell people a bridge in Brooklyn, or is there a loophole in the somewhat outdated HIPAA privacy and security regulations that few have taken advantage of? The answer is unclear.
Dr. Michael Koriwchak, an otolaryngologist in Atlanta, raised the question last week on his Wired EMR Practice blog by calling secure...
With all the talk about "pilot-itus" in mobile health (too many pilots, not enough deals), here's a bright spot: The US Army and Diversinet's relationship transitioned from pilot to the real deal this week.
After a one-year, small scale pilot of the mobile-phone enabled health app mCare, the US Army has inked a five-year deal with Diversinet to leverage the company's MobiSecure Health platform to...
