Trent W. Buck wrote:
Jason White wrote:
I'm really not concerned about the possibility that a government department or a health professional could gain access to my records without my consent. ........snip
There are also issues with improperly anonymized records appearing in research papers.
I just had an idea -- store the canonical copy of the data on your medicare card. Most people, most of the time, will have a wallet and a phone on them, and they're already used to the idea of managing secrecy of their wallets' contents.
Well that is certainly a decentralised model; the simplest and cheapest version would just be just an electronic copy of the paper record; there is still the problem of collecting that paper record, when it is spread over multiple GP's ; a common situation, I would have thought ? If it is to be in data-base format there would be issues of standardisation and conversion; which would probably have a higher cost. Regarding privacy; it occurs that the chief issue is the privacy of the identity of the owner of that record and any identifying information within those records, which probably isn't substantial . .This being important because it suggests a privatised solution .might be possible with a business model, whereby a company (with a patient's permission) pays doctors for access to the paper record, then converts and processes the record; identifying the record only by a code. Those anonymous records would be a valuable resource , which pharmaceutical companies etc. would pay to have access to. What will you call your company ? and when will it go public ?
Your active caregiver has a cached copy that they pull from your medicare card with a card reader on their desk. If you go to ER without your wallet, they have to pull it from there
Well my experience was that they just asked me ! Reminded me of Dirty Harry's immortal line "Feeling lucky punk ?"
-- same as they do now with paper records.
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Remaining logistics issues are left as an exercise for the reader.
The card reader ?.........apologies I couldn't resist there is no real ambiguity ! regards Rohan McLeod