{"id":8662,"date":"2018-12-18T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T11:57:08","slug":"information-governance-instant-messaging-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/practice-news\/information-governance-instant-messaging-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Governance \u2013 Instant Messaging Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instant messaging is a useful tool in supporting the delivery of direct care, particularly in an acute context. There are, however, some important data protection considerations surrounding the use of these systems, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The transfer of sensitive data across unregulated servers outside the European Economic Area (EEA)<\/li>\n<li>Compliance with data protection requirements regarding \u2018fair processing\u2019, individuals\u2019 rights, and records management<\/li>\n<li>Data protection security risks, including bringing your own device (BYOD) to work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A proportionate approach is therefore needed: staff need to balance the benefits and risks of instant messaging depending on the purpose for which they wish to use it (e.g. using it in an emergency versus as a general communication tool).<\/p>\n<p>Please find attached the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/download\/8764\/\">information governance considerations for instant messaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instant messaging is a useful tool in supporting the delivery of direct care, particularly in an acute context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}