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Hi Oged,
¿What you mean by project topic in Health Informatics?
Thanks to everybody.
I'am in agree that misuse of PHR is terrific. But good use of these PHRs in medical day day-to-day work, research and others will save so many lives...We have to find the way to protect PHRs, and do the job.
Google is PHR, b...
You have to bear in mind that Google Health and HealthVault are essentially PERSONAL health records. In the USA, they have started linking up with partners in order for health information to flow from providers to the health record of the consumer...
The major issues would be cost and availability of computers, broadband connectivity and vendor interface (hospitals, labs, pharmacies) in resource poor settings. Not many hospitals use computers (which is changing gradually) and not many patients...
Yes, security is always a concern and there are ways to effectively manage it. In the case of medical records, I think that an independent agency should be able to audit companies to ensure compliance. I don't necessarily feel this way about other...
Dear Mark,
I'am in agree with you. But security is a problem for any infrastructure configuration.
A good option is to separate medical record id from personal id. Another option is to get Google/MS technology and run in your own infrastructure, ...
My confidence would be improved if I didn't see "Google" and "Microsoft" before the names of the systems. Does anyone have so much trust in either company to submit extremely sensitive personal information, and have them store and provide others w...
What do you think about systems as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault to be used as basic EHR system for developing countries?
Thanks for your time.
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