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Digital patient data creates an interesting ethics problem. A patient could have information like a deadly allergy risk on their record, which maybe you can't r
by foolmeonce 6y ago
Digital patient data creates an interesting ethics problem. A patient could have information like a deadly allergy risk on their record, which maybe you can't read, but 999 other patients are going to benefit from the same care.
- moring 6y agoIs this really a novel problem? Most treatmments have some risk associated with them, and a 1/1000 chance seems acceptable if the alternative is death or serious health consequences. I think if the story went like "we treated the patient immediately, but she had a rare allergy which we couldn't look up in time because a ransomware attack took our network down", it would be much more of an everyday story.
- foolmeonce 6y agoIt's not novel that hospitals make these choices and review them. It's novel that one of a thousand ransom attacks on hospitals has resulted in the murder threat that makes a ransom attack on a hospital work better than on a hotel or school. We want medical data because not having it might play a role in our death. Assuming the hospital must have had a better triage response is like assuming authorities should have taken some murder threat seriously and stopped it. Maybe.. depends on frequency and other outcomes and doesn't really absolve the murderer either way.
- moviuro 6y agoWas the patient alone? Do their companions know of such things? Why doesn't the hospital have a special laptop with only 3/4G connectivity and a card reader for this purpose? BTW, use the emergency info of your phone: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-add-emergency-information-your-android-phone; https://www.androidcentral.com/how-add-emergency-information... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207021 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207021