A new picture-sharing phone and tablet application for doctors and medical students is raising concerns about patient privacy.
Doctors are not known for their love of social media or casual status updates. But with day to day leaps in technologies and its applications has made the profession of doctors ever more omnipresent.
The latest in the entrants to the many applications available is a much awaited and desperately needed, medical-photo sharing app for doctors.
Likened to be the Instagram for the medical profession, these apps are used by doctors to share images of cases that they need a consult on, or find unique. These images are made shareable with colleagues, or an entire network of doctors. This specialized image sharing application allows them to share photos of medical conditions for teaching and diagnostic purposes while incorporating efficient safeguards to ensure patient privacy and consent.