"“Hospitals have moved away from using ordinary email because there are all sorts of ways in which it can be compromised, intercepted in transit, or seen by your email provider,” said Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who specializes in data security and privacy. He added, “It’s especially bad when the information is in the subject line because who knows where that could pop up — on a desktop, a phone.”"
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