Calleja-Castillo Juan M, Gonzalez-Calderon Gina
Neurology, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México City, Mexico.
Medicine, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Front Neurol. 2018 May 31;9:388. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00388. eCollection 2018.
Smartphone use is extremely common. Applications such as WhatsApp have billions of users and physicians are no exception. Stroke Medicine is a field where instant communication among fairly large groups is essential. In developing countries, economic limitations preclude the possibility of acquiring proper communication platforms. Thus, WhatsApp has been used as an organizational tool, for sharing clinical data, and for real time guidance of clinical care decisions. It has evolved into a cheap, accessible tool for telemedicine. Nevertheless, regulatory and privacy issues must be addressed. Some countries have implemented legislation to address this issue, while others lag behind. In this article, we present an overview on the different roles WhatsApp has acquired as a clinical tool in stroke systems and the potential privacy concerns of its use.
智能手机的使用极为普遍。像WhatsApp这样的应用程序拥有数十亿用户，医生也不例外。中风医学领域中，相当大规模群体之间的即时通讯至关重要。在发展中国家，经济限制使得获取合适的通讯平台成为不可能。因此，WhatsApp被用作一种组织工具，用于共享临床数据以及对临床护理决策进行实时指导。它已演变成一种用于远程医疗的廉价且易于使用的工具。然而，监管和隐私问题必须得到解决。一些国家已实施立法来处理这个问题，而其他国家则滞后了。在本文中，我们概述了WhatsApp在中风系统中作为临床工具所扮演的不同角色以及使用它可能存在的隐私问题。
