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Kelly

I led a PHR project: http://www.keyose.com/

It is the first totally anonymous personal health record. No name, no email or other identification data required.

You may take a look…

“Confessors will not ask your name. Why do we?”

You are not required to sign the the pharmacy “authorization”, or whatever they call it if you are paying cash. And often it is same/less $$ to not claim against RX benefits. Pharmacy personnel may not know how to complete transactions - and tell you “oh, you must sign” but refuse to sign “auth. to transmit into to 3rd parties: THAT IS what auth says. And there is NO LAW that says you must authorize such transmittal of your private information to 3rd parites in order to receive a perscription medicine..

Lab reports are the bulk of medical records, as are a transcript of your doctor’s notes.

Neither can be readily loaded into Google system.

I have both, tried to enter such records, even with fairly good knowledge of the meaning of such information. Even a simple process to load a scanned copy of such records would be a huge improvement.

all very nice theory - in practice of course it is the exact opposite of what you describe. Not sure where you get the idea that companies are not ‘allowed’ the luxury of coercion. The coercion is still happening, allowed or no.

You know - take my money for five years then deny my coverage arbitrarily and hold the legal process up until I die from the coverage not being provided. That works out very well for me, doesn’t it.

Your approach also very effectively explains why we have private police and fire services across this nation - the other area where life is threatened and time is of the essence. Oh, wait….

It also explains why the majority of democracies in the world DO have some form of centralized healthcare…

While the free market may work for many things, only the blinkered believe it works for everything.

Now that Google Health has finally launched, I took a quick peek at it while Mark was taking notes at today’s Google Factory Tour presentation. It’s been a long time coming, but at first glance it looks like it will be a strong competitor to existi…

It probably doesn’t need to be said, but I have a strong feeling it will make everyone forget about HealthVault very quickly…

A teacher that doesn’t know her child has HIV (god forbid) is unlikely to rush to cover one’s blood when cut or something to protect all the other ones.

People are acting like HIPPA is the end-all-be-all. It’s not.

Further, I still agree that they’re solving the wrong problem. However, people overreacting about a third party having your medical records is what the issue is. And further, what are the third party and potential hackers, going to do with such information? Sell it? What value does it have?

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So, really, all you are really getting at is the Government oversees it.

You think changing passwords is that hard? No, it’s not. Maybe all banks aren’t like mine but once logged in, it’s 1-2-3. Am I scared? Nope.

When you search for NKDA in the alphabetized list, it is there–but when you add it to your profile it shows “NKDA–Severe”. I have a severe allergy to No Known Drug Allergies? Come on, guys.

With well-intentioned government policies and their resulting bureaucracies, fraud and inefficiency is par for the course, because participation is mandatory and lack of cooperation is punishable.