Sunday, August 7, 2011

What do you think of this idea?

I am working on a presentation proposing a nationwide electronic health record/electronic medical record (in a central database) on cloud that can be accessed by any registered physician. Doctors will be able to view the patient's entire medical history and information such as to what the patient is allergic to, etc. For the presentation, I want to add a video footage in the beginning that will show the hassle a patient may have to go through with paper-based records. I am thinking that a patient goes to a new physician, and he prescribes him something that conflicts with some other ailment the patient may be suffering from (maybe diabetes or high blood pressure?). This happens to the patient a couple of times due to the various ailments he has. Finally his physician asks him to bring along all his medical records, and at the end, the patient shows up with a huge bundle of medical records. Do you like this idea? Does it make sense? Could you suggest something else? It could be a satirical footage or a sad one. Being a software engineer my idea in the medical field is very limited. But I will be proposing this idea for actual implementation to our honorable prime minister. Of course it will be followed by much detailed analysis which will be taking into account various compliance, security issues, cost, but this is just a preliminary presentation. And it is going to help so many people in our country. Kindly suggest any idea you may have. Your idea may actually help out my country. Also, for the Q&A session, what else do you think I should be taking into consideration? Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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