James A. Simon, MD, CCD, NCMP, IF, FACOG, Sheryl A. Kingsberg, PhD, IF, and Anita L. Nelson, PhD, IF present Roundtable: Practitioner/Patient Partnership in Family Planning with FABMs (Part II)

Right.

Certainly, we meet all the standards for security.

the international standards, the FDA standards.

But what's really important is that as the patient comes into the system, she has an option to go anonymous.

And I think that that's really clear to her.

And as soon as she says that, what happens is her personal data, her identifying data, everything that she answers in terms of questions, her history all of that is separated from her fertility data so that if she's concerned that maybe somebody's monitoring her to see if she is maybe missed her period she's concerned about whether she her own menstrual history is being being used for other uses as you mentioned there, maybe commercially, but in this political environment it may be very important to maintain your own personal data and not have anyone else see this.

So there's no way for anybody from the outside to link the data that she's downloading or inputting into her computer about herself to who she is.

So that anonymity is really important.

And about 80% of the users do take advantage of that option.

Even if they don't, there are all these layers of security that are built into the system.

But this final one, I think, should really assuage the concerns of anyone who is afraid that somebody else is gaining access to her very personal data.

I think that that data is so important for the clinician to talk to women about because they may be worrying about it and thinking about it but not necessarily voicing that and so having that as part of that initial discussion i think will be really helpful so that women can feel more confident knowing because we all worry about our privacy and what information is getting out there you know i can have a conversation with somebody about going on an alaskan cruise and the next thing you know there's a an ad on TV for an Alaskan cruise.

So knowing that and seeing that it is very secure I think will be really helpful.

So