Medical students and personal smartphones in the clinical environment: the impact on confidentiality of personal health information and professionalism.

Tran, Kim; Morra, Dante; Lo, Vivian; Quan, Sherman D; Abrams, Howard; Wu, Robert C

Medical students and personal smartphones in the clinical environment: the impact on confidentiality of personal health information and professionalism.

Date

2014-05-23

Authors

Abstract

Smartphones are becoming ubiquitous in health care settings The increased adoption of mobile technology such as smartphones may be attributed to their use as a point of care information source and to perceived improvements in clinical communication and efficiency However little is known about medical students use of personal smartphones for clinical work