One of the biggest problems for people seeking medical advice in America is in locating medical records. Anyone who has lived in multiple locations will likely have medical records scattered in multiple places in the country. There's no way for a doctor to get a holistic view of your health status without seeing all of it.
As a patient, your electronic medical record contains a wealth of information about you: vital signs, notes from physicians and medications.
Doctors use that information to track your medical history and keep tabs on you in the hospital - but what if they could also use it to predict your future health?
It's an idea inching closer to reality.
Phys.org: U. of C. Medicine, Google hope to use patterns in patient records to predict health
A step is skipped in the report since it's all very well to use your medical records to predict future medical events but that will mean steadily less based on the availability of those records. For people who have only lived in one location, that's relatively easy but, even for them, HIPA privacy laws make it blindingly difficult to accumulate your own records.
This week, Google announced it's teaming up with University of Chicago Medicine to research ways to use machine learning to predict medical events - such as whether someone will be hospitalized, how long that hospitalization will last and whether a patient's health is deteriorating. Google has formed similar partnerships with Stanford Medicine and the University of California at San Francisco.
Google and university researchers will try to discover patterns in patients' medical records but the records used in the research will be stripped of personally identifiable information to protect patient privacy.
- PO
The main driver for this article is a call to abandon the false protection of HIPA privacy laws which generally mean everyone has access to the medical records except the patient. If you think I'm exaggerating, try to gather your records yourself.
We want those laws abandoned to facilitate the sharing of medical information from disparate sources in my life or anyone's to find the true holistic view of it as is suggested in the current science.
Someday when we emerge from this primitive time, there won't be medical records on paper but you can still see them in the current time in any office for doctors or dentists. Walls will be filled with cardboard binders with patient records. The beauty of HIPA law is that makes it extremely difficult for you to obtain those records.
HIPA law is yet one more example of governmental intrusion and one more example of its failure.
As a patient, your electronic medical record contains a wealth of information about you: vital signs, notes from physicians and medications.
Doctors use that information to track your medical history and keep tabs on you in the hospital - but what if they could also use it to predict your future health?
It's an idea inching closer to reality.
Phys.org: U. of C. Medicine, Google hope to use patterns in patient records to predict health
A step is skipped in the report since it's all very well to use your medical records to predict future medical events but that will mean steadily less based on the availability of those records. For people who have only lived in one location, that's relatively easy but, even for them, HIPA privacy laws make it blindingly difficult to accumulate your own records.
This week, Google announced it's teaming up with University of Chicago Medicine to research ways to use machine learning to predict medical events - such as whether someone will be hospitalized, how long that hospitalization will last and whether a patient's health is deteriorating. Google has formed similar partnerships with Stanford Medicine and the University of California at San Francisco.
Google and university researchers will try to discover patterns in patients' medical records but the records used in the research will be stripped of personally identifiable information to protect patient privacy.
- PO
The main driver for this article is a call to abandon the false protection of HIPA privacy laws which generally mean everyone has access to the medical records except the patient. If you think I'm exaggerating, try to gather your records yourself.
We want those laws abandoned to facilitate the sharing of medical information from disparate sources in my life or anyone's to find the true holistic view of it as is suggested in the current science.
Someday when we emerge from this primitive time, there won't be medical records on paper but you can still see them in the current time in any office for doctors or dentists. Walls will be filled with cardboard binders with patient records. The beauty of HIPA law is that makes it extremely difficult for you to obtain those records.
HIPA law is yet one more example of governmental intrusion and one more example of its failure.
2 comments:
I just transferred all of multiple patients records including being allowed to see those records. I did have to have releases signed by those patients. HIPA does prevent any Google searches finding a patients records. It would not prevent electronic database storage of files as most of these files are already electronically stored
It's only eight years ago with me and it was impossible to collect the records either due to practicality, distance, of deliberate obstruction. I'm glad you had no trouble but that's the first time I ever heard of anyone who did not have trouble with it.
The idea HIPA prevents others from seeing your medical data is the same as believing there's privacy in anything you do online. It's wishful thinking.
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