Eric Lai's excellent and askance view of mobile health care - How Healthcare’s Embrace of Mobility has Turned Dangerous - cites alarming, though somewhat sensational, dangers of mobile computing in health care. Chatting on one's phone while performing surgery or choosing to text rather than place an urgent order via smartphone evince more banal and alarming trends - inattention and distract-ability, at the individual level, and institutional carelessness and disregard for privacy, confidentiality, and data stewardship. Providers are lousy at providing patients and their health data their undivided attention.
We'd be healthier and safer as a society if our healthcare organizations grounded their patient care and IT strategies in basic principles of diligence and respect for patients and not in technological ephemera.
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