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0 pointsdesindol3y ago0 comments

Instead of questioning the use of whatsapp for medical purposes by a medical professional you tell them to use signal or telegram?

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tomohawk3y ago· 3 in thread

What would you recomend, then?

At least the two I recommend won't destroy your whole digital life if they don't like you.

hedora3y ago

I think the issue is that you're trying to optimize for patient privacy, quality of health care service, and doctor productivity.

The other commenter is trying to optimize for "doctor does not go to jail".

The two goals are mutually exclusive in this case.

tomohawk3y ago

Go to jail? Signal, for example, provides end to end encryption for all uses. Whatsapp does not appear to do that:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-...

It would seem like there would be HIPAA concerns with using a channel that does not guarantee privacy, and allows Big Corp to snoop on the content.

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Aeolun3y ago

I think one person is trying to optimize for patient convenience. I strongly feel that this is one of those cases where patients do not think about their privacy for once second.

It’d be more interesting to meet the patients where they are and find some way to securely get those images into a medical file.

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