Dan Boddington, systems engineer at StarLeaf, discusses the dangers of using insecure messaging, and asks if the increase in its use is putting patients’ information at risk.
Social media is the modern medicine for wagging tongues and communal chat. It is the panacea for a digitally hungry generation and a platform for participation that globally pulses every second with voice and video calls, image sharing, and messaging. However, used for the wrong purposes, it can leave medical professionals with a big headache – a major data breach.
So, as pressures on the health service are intensifying to diagnose and communicate more quickly, are we in danger of creating a data-dystopian society, which is putting patients’ information at risk?
What’s the problem?
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