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What's wrong with using email to communicate with the medical records office? And as CT scans are private information, why would you assume it would be Ok to m

What's wrong with using email to communicate with the medical records office? And as CT scans are private information, why would you assume it would be Ok to make them available through a public server and send them over the internet?

lotsofpulp 7y ago
I think they typo’d “mail” and wrote “email” unintentionally. Or at least that’s the only way their post makes sense to me.
- travisoneill1 7y ago
  yes
sgift 7y ago
> And as CT scans are private information, why would you assume it would be Ok to make them available through a public server and send them over the internet? Encryption. A magical tool to make sure things are not available to anyone just because they are available on the Internet. Email on the other hand is so insecure (and cannot be easily encrypted, because many popular programs/email-providers don't support it) that a server sounds like a far better idea. edit/expanded: I have seen all variants here. Usually you go to another hospital, so they don't have all your things. If this is planned I have all the things I got with me, so the doctors have to filter, sort and scan them (every hospital has to do this again), but at least they have something to start with. Often the other hospital also sent something before you arrive if this is a planned cooperation. Maybe these two things together are enough, sometimes they are not. If it's just a report the current hospital can ask for it from the other and they get it faxed. But maybe it's a CT, MRT or whatever scan. These things are big, so they get send per courier, which takes time. Now you have to maybe wait longer for whatever you are there for. In extreme cases it can go down to "I here have what you want and you need it now, so you ask me questions over the phone and I answer you" which is asking for all kinds of problems. All in all the current process is slow, involves repeating work and leads to not everyone having the whole picture. The need to make sure all these private data are safe is very real, but though is the need to get better than this system, cause it doesn't work well and we know that something better is possible here.
travisoneill1 7y ago
My bad I mean fax or mail

lotsofpulp 7y ago

I think they typo’d “mail” and wrote “email” unintentionally. Or at least that’s the only way their post makes sense to me.

travisoneill1 7y ago
yes

sgift 7y ago

> And as CT scans are private information, why would you assume it would be Ok to make them available through a public server and send them over the internet? Encryption. A magical tool to make sure things are not available to anyone just because they are available on the Internet. Email on the other hand is so insecure (and cannot be easily encrypted, because many popular programs/email-providers don't support it) that a server sounds like a far better idea. edit/expanded: I have seen all variants here. Usually you go to another hospital, so they don't have all your things. If this is planned I have all the things I got with me, so the doctors have to filter, sort and scan them (every hospital has to do this again), but at least they have something to start with. Often the other hospital also sent something before you arrive if this is a planned cooperation. Maybe these two things together are enough, sometimes they are not. If it's just a report the current hospital can ask for it from the other and they get it faxed. But maybe it's a CT, MRT or whatever scan. These things are big, so they get send per courier, which takes time. Now you have to maybe wait longer for whatever you are there for. In extreme cases it can go down to "I here have what you want and you need it now, so you ask me questions over the phone and I answer you" which is asking for all kinds of problems. All in all the current process is slow, involves repeating work and leads to not everyone having the whole picture. The need to make sure all these private data are safe is very real, but though is the need to get better than this system, cause it doesn't work well and we know that something better is possible here.

travisoneill1 7y ago

My bad I mean fax or mail