On Thursday 07 December 2006 13:44, Michael Christie wrote: > Using putty at a nursing home requires you to install putty on someone > else's machine.
Only machines I use personally - no 3rd party machines really. > Logmein only requires internet access and a web browser. Yeah, and it means that the data will *accessibly* be routed through a third party server in the USA - a country with literally no privacy protection when it comes to commercial exploitation of personal data. If I ask the patient what they'd prefer - a well proven and understood standards compliant software tool being installed on a doctors and a nursing home's computers in order to route their health record data (or access to it via remote GUI, which boils down to the same concerns) through securely or - a commercial application that routes the remote access through a proprietary server in the USA, using undisclosed features, without any guarantee of a man in the middle attack being prevented ... I think I can predict the patient's answer I can fully understand that some doctors are willing to pay an annual fee just so that they don't have to be bothered for about half an hour with installation and maintenance of a free software package - but I find it rather unbelievable that they are readily prepared to potentially risk the allegedly sacrosanct privacy of the doctor-patient relationship for mere inertia and laziness Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
