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by dimitri_chas
3726 days ago
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Healthcare is one of the last big industries that hasn't been revolutionised yet. That said the issue of medical data storage and sharing is a very big one and hits a very sensitive nerve on the general public. What you are describing is more or less an everyday reality for anyone who had some recent experience with healthcare either as a patient or a health professional. As it was noted there were and currently are some major tech companies who tried to tackle this problem unsuccessfully up until now; the fact that they haven't managed to offer a viable solution yet speaks for itself. If you believe you have the knowledge and experience to work on something that truly is a very complex problem to solve you should prepare for a battle. There are literally hundreds of closed proprietary systems for medical record keeping only in the US. They have established marketing channels and collaborations and in fact are so deeply rooted to the workings of a hospital that feels like you would have to physically tear down and rebuild the whole thing from scratch! As we speak there are also some great cloud based alternatives with a different approach and business model (eg patient fusion). On the other hand what you are describing is the future; some of the most important healthcare evangelists are pointing out that our fixation on the preservation of health data in these closed systems is costing us both in money and quality of services received. My opinion is it will happen once the general public embraces the idea of sharing (anonymised) personal health information which in turn will only happen when we realise that the benefit of such outweighs the possible risks of exposure of this information to a third party. |
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Those major tech companies cannot solve this problem because they built their foundation completely wrong when tackling the electronic health record software. People like Jonathan Bush, CEO from athneaHealth, explained that the current health system needs to be wiped clean and to be start over. In some cases, big companies are trying to merge in order to solve this issue and to hope one company can rule them all. Having companies establishing channels and collaborations with hospitals is not something we fear about. What we fear most is the lack of options health record companies are not telling health care professionals about. There are better solutions out there to build a better health system. We have looked into a couple cloud based health record companies and we are hoping to work with them someday since we will feel they are on the right path on what we want to achieve as well. (patient Fusion is one of them)
That is why we want to build on this for the future. You are totally on the right track about everything you said in the last paragraph. Building this database will take time; therefore, we want to be there when the public is ready for it. This health database is just the tip of the iceberg. We already planned a path for it and how it can benefit the future as well as how it can change the way the health industry works.
Thank you for your comments and thoughts. If you have more questions or comments or anything, feel free to ask/comment. I would be happy to reply to your thoughts.