What about my personal medical history flash drives? No more big brother needed. I like this option much better. And then even the EMS guy could be able to open it up in the field lets say if he needed to, maybe even be able to upload it to the ER while you were in transit... Hey with MS home server, why not have something at your own home? If you have everyone's data spread out behind their own routers and security packages, it would be pretty hard for anyone with mal-intent to compile it all together and use it against any and all of us.
We should all be scared as hell of centralized servers with all our medical info on it. Here is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can not tell you how many times a patient goes to the ER or prompt care place, especially Nancy's assisted living folks who fall and bump their head or have real or false issues all the time. Anyway, it has taken her months to get the patient and their meds balanced and in order, get the staff at these places to finally carry out her plans properly, as well as have the family or the place go to one pharmacy to track and keep all their meds together and correct, and BAM one little ride to the ER or a day or two admit and all this hard work gets shot to hell! Then we are scrambling for days and weeks having long unpayed for phonecalls with all the players to get this patient straightened out again. Worse yet, we usually don't get the hospital notes sent to us for days if at all, the local hospitals especally a certain Catholic one, are just terrible in getting us notes in a timely fashion. Then the doc has to review all this stuff that some resident late at night screwed up, and again all uncompensated no less, to try and get this all fixed.
Now you want to let all the players and the patient go running a muck thru all of this? No way Jose. And again that is why having a private copy that is very "Unoffical and for Personal Use Only" may be OK, but with all the conflicts going down between players it would get ugly pretty fast....
BTW "G" since I'm not too sure how much you know about the business and legal side of all this. It does seem like your the tech support but not the practice manager at your wife's place; HIPAA only really clamped down on the provider side of your personal privacy, much of it loosened the reins on the government and the carriers so they could share your personal health information, your protected health information even more, mostly to be used against you the patient and the citizen as a comsumer of healthcare payments. We call it PHI now in this HIPAA age. Sorry if I'm talking down to you if you are in the loop on all of this. But in this age of all these players trying the darn level best to steal and use our PHI against us as patients and providers, you just can't get me to accept servers with everyone's PHI on it. I opt out...
