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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'

www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492
Meta GlassesFashion timesWoman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'A woman's discomfort with a doctor wearing smart glasses during a consultation has sparked debate over privacy and the use of camera-equipped technology in healthcare settings.
atomicbocks@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world⁩

I used to work at a hospital and I have experience with doctors who firmly believe that their comfort and convenience tops HIPAA and anything else. I had to file several violations for doctors who wouldn’t stop using SMS instead of their pagers. Every time their excuse was “I don’t like the pager, it’s old.”There is a nonzero chance that this doctor didn’t even continue thinking about the consequences beyond “but I need to have the latest thing”.

corvi@corvi@piefed.social

Replying to an earlier post

Most pager systems are actually huge privacy violations. $20 for a software defined radio dongle and a few minutes will give you plaintext pager notifications for hospitals across your state.

Did a project on it when I was breaking into cybersecurity.

There are encrypted paging setups, but there’s a lot of places still running legacy.

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TranscendentalEmpire@TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today

Replying to an earlier post

I mean as long as they aren’t sending protected health information it really isn’t a HIPAA violation. We use an encrypted pager at my clinic, but that’s just because the hospitals guidelines are stricter than HIPAAs. For what we and most providers still use pagers for nowadays could be done over an unencrypted network. Most of the time it’s just to call us to a certain room number. It’s not like people really have the patience to type out words using two buttons at more.