Law’s Sharona Hoffman warns public physician schedules and phone numbers pose privacy risks

Links exposed physician cell numbers and work schedules at health systems in Philly and nationwide

Philadelphia Inquirer: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said publicly available physician schedules and cell numbers create serious privacy and safety risks. The combination could enable patients, politically motivated individuals or stalkers to target health care workers. She called the lack of broad federal employee privacy protections “not surprising though very disturbing.”