Digital Health February 8, 2024
Junior doctor Matt Farrier sometimes asks advice on medical matters from his consultant paediatrician father Martin. Like ‘every doctor in the country’ they use WhatsApp – and don’t want to stop
Concern about the security of sharing patient-specific data by WhatsApp is not new. It’s been hanging around since middle-aged doctors discovered that WhatsApp existed. That was some time after younger doctors started using it.
The middle-aged doctors raised concerns about the security of WhatsApp, but not long after that they found the app was so useful they forgot about their concerns and joined the WhatsApp groups the younger doctors had set up. Quite some time after that, the middle-aged doctors found they could set up their own WhatsApp groups.
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