Medical Records are owned by Patients. Your doctor/hospital may act as custodian but patient owns it. Look at indivo.org for an implementation where patient is in control and the patient has to give permission before any entity have access.Of course, fear plays a greater part and typically, patients give access to any one in the chain. Insurance companies are notorius in that they can scare you into not covering you.
It has already been worked on and it's called Itsie. That's about 3 year old,then developed at the Digital Western lab. Now Compaq owns it and as you know Compaq is slowly being sucked into a black hole right now, right out of existence. Hope they get their acts together. Yours Slippery, Okhra
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Medical Records are owned by Patients. Your doctor/hospital may act as custodian but patient owns it.
Look at indivo.org for an implementation where patient is in control and the patient has to give permission before any entity have access.Of course, fear plays a greater part and typically, patients give access to any one in the chain. Insurance companies are notorius in that they can scare you into not covering you.
It has already been worked on and it's called Itsie. That's about 3 year old ,then developed at the Digital Western lab. Now Compaq owns it and as you know Compaq is slowly being sucked into a black hole right now, right out of existence. Hope they get their acts together.
Yours Slippery,
Okhra