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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by matheusmoreira on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:20PM (#28484577)
> It's not like the doctor [...] are trustworthy on the privacy front.

That perception worries me. Medical information is confidential, it's the only reason doctors are trusted with such data. If this fundamental principle is corrupted, then nobody in healthcare can be trusted.

Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:24AM (#28492717)
This entire subthread is predicated on not trusting the physician/clinician/device manufacturer. If those people really can't be trusted, then I'd suggest that the posters simply never go to the doctor.

I've been involved in medical device development for close to two decades. It's like pulling teeth to get data collected and sent off remotely because it raises the device manufacturing cost, increases device development cost to add those features (and yeah, security is being taken a lot more seriously these days), raises operational cost because you either need your own server farm or to pay for a HIPAA-compliant online database, there's more work to be done in developing a frontend for the clinicians to view and use the data, etc.

In short, no one is adding cell data upload to a device on a whim. I remember a device I worked on a year ago that decided to avoid this although it was expected that many of the users would be in remote areasor had mobility problems. Instead the customer decided to store data on an SD card (need to record results from the patient so their therapy could be adjusted as needed) and have the clinician download it from the device (they made weekly visits) using a tablet that would then email it directly to the physican who prescribed the device.

I understand that we're all losing trust, but this is getting ridiculous.