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I agree with your overall sentiment. That said, a doctor's office is a bad example. A modern one probably needs: 1) A brochure. 2) Scheduling. 3) A mess
by bzbarsky 9y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment. That said, a doctor's office is a bad example. A modern one probably needs:
1) A brochure.
2) Scheduling.
3) A messaging system (sending email with health info is
not HIPAA-compliant, obviously).
4) A way to look up lab results and whatnot.
5) On the back end, a way for the doctor to
_enter_ the lab results.
6) Ideally a way to automatically generate and print out
kids' vaccination information forms for schools.
and probably other things I'm not thinking of. 1-5 are common; I haven't run into #6 yet, but I keep hoping. Now you're correct that the right answer is to outsource all this, not least because of the HIPAA compliance problems.
- eugene-s 9y ago7) Expect some kind of sync with Apple and Amazon medical data (as they are moving into the field http://www.businessinsider.com/digital-health-briefing-amazon-to-enter-major-healthcare-partnership-apple-watch-aids-in-treating-depression-ibm-watson-shows-its-power-in-cancer-study-2017-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/digital-health-briefing-amazo...) 8) Some kind of permission system to add additional people who can track patients data (could be relatives, other medical specialists, etc). 9) Connection to social groups (or even communities). This exists for rare deceases and deceases that aren't strictly medical.