Originally Posted by
Tothill
I know that seems like a good idea, staff taking photos of medical notes, prescription bottles etc with their cameras, but it breaks a great many privacy laws.... If Nurse Jim has my medical records on his phone, they are no longer private.
I don't think that's true if the devices are secured devices. I doubt the home-care people that came to help me after my surgery were breaking any laws by having my records in their iPad-like devices that they brought with them. They used those same devices to take pictures of my surgical site to send back to my doctor.
Don't medical transcriptionists frequently work from home?