“Paper forms are a security risk”, warns the web site for CareMonkey, which maintains digital and up-to-date medical information in the cloud “for any organization with a duty of care”. This is raising concerns for long-time Slashdot reader rolandw, who says he’s being asked by his daughter’s school to approve using the site to store “her full medical details”.

CareMonkey say that this data is stored on AWS and their security page says that it is secured by every protocol ever claimed by AWS (apparently). As a sysadmin and developer who has used AWS extensively for non-secure information my alarm bells are sounding.

Should he ignore those alarm bells and approve the storage of his daughter’s medical history in the cloud? And if not, what specific reason would you give for refusing?

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Source: Slashdot – Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud?