With these productivity gains, unfortunately, also come increased risks. So, even if you take notes on a tablet with a patient, annotate them on a desktop computer in your office, and then continue to work on them on your laptop at home, you’ll always have access to the most up-to-date version of your data.Īdditionally, file-sharing services like Dropbox make it extremely easy to seamlessly share files with other colleagues involved in your patient’s care. These services also enable you to synchronize files across a number of different devices. Even if your entire practice is flooded, for example, and all of your computers and paper files are destroyed, your files will still be safe if you’ve backed them up with a service like Dropbox. For starters, they ensure that you never accidentally lose a single patient file.
On a consumer level, most people are familiar with cloud file-sharing services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive, which enable users to automatically backup files to the cloud, share them with friends and colleagues, and automatically get access to the latest version of files from any mobile device.įile sharing services can provide a huge productivity boost for healthcare professionals. If you’re not familiar, cloud computing allows users to – among other things – backup files from desktops and mobile devices, and then access these files on demand from any Internet-connected device or browser. Not long ago, healthcare professionals likely would have marveled at an invention that allowed them to easily and instantly back up patient files and share them with other care providers from any location.Īt the same time, healthcare professionals may have quaked at the prospect of an invention that could scatter copies of their patient files to exposed locations, giving easy access to potential snoops and identity thieves.īoth inventions exist today, and they’re both the same thing: cloud file sharing. This is a quest post written by Asaf Cidon, Sookasa CEO and co-founder. But unless you protect these services using proper encryption, they can be a HIPAA hazard.
File-sharing services like Dropbox and Box help you automatically back-up, synchronize and share healthcare files in the cloud and on mobile devices. A perfect way of storing and sending medical files is by using HIPAA compliant cloud storage.
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