[mcculley]

Agreed. I carry all of my health records on a very small USB flash drive in my pocket. Every time I show it to a doctor, they are scared to plug it into their desktop for fear of malware.

[ramidarigaz]

And that seems like a totally rational fear too.

[ChoHag]

It totally is, and the computers they use should not have working USB ports on them.

[mcculley]

Amusingly, I work with a rather large organization which still buys machines with PS/2 keyboards and fills the USB ports with epoxy. This is the state of security.

[mcculley]

This was the point of my reply. There's no technological fix when clinicians can't even safely open a read-only file.