Patient care requires collaboration and information sharing between different departments or between primary care physicians and specialists. But protecting patient privacy and security is paramount, which can make file sharing a lot more difficult than attaching a health record to an email and pressing send.
Healthcare-related files can also be quite large, especially if they include items such as X-rays, MRI results or a complete medical history that might span years or even decades. The file sizes would likely get capped by the server; if they were allowed to go through, it might even…
