NBHC Care Experience
April 30, 2018
Doctors and nurses are using apps such as Whatsapp and iMessage to share pictures of patients with their care team. But those apps don’t meet encryption standards for the sharing of sensitive medical material, meaning health professionals may be breaching patient privacy. It's why the creators of the ShareSmart app worked with privacy lawyers to make sure it complied with privacy legislation in Canada. The program encrypts text and photos within the app and stores them on a Canadian server with a number of safeguards. The app hit the market in 2016 and is used by 20,000 people in 70 countries. It was endorsed by the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and is seeing a strong uptake by doctors in Alberta hospitals.