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To stay focused on technology issues... Can someone’s health condition be signed and verified? Is it okay for it to be normalized to real time? Health outcom
by an_opabinia 6y ago
To stay focused on technology issues...
Can someone’s health condition be signed and verified?
Is it okay for it to be normalized to real time?
Health outcomes are nonlinear. Even if it were reduced to a number, could people interpret it correctly?
Is he more likely to recover better if his medical condition is disclosed? Is it ethical to spend medical resources on concerns that do not improve his outcome? Can technology ameliorate that?
By the way, most doctors would agree paperwork, billing and insurance unethically harm patient outcomes.
- nradov 6y agoA patient chart note recorded in HL7 CDA R2 format or similar can be digitally signed just like any other XML document. But that doesn't guarantee the document is clinically accurate. https://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/ https://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/ Healthcare providers can only ethically disclose patient records if authorized by the patient himself (or someone legally authorized to act on the patient's behalf). There is nothing in the code of medical ethics which prohibits doing paperwork or dealing with insurance billing. https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/code-medical-ethics-overview https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/code-medical...
- an_opabinia 6y ago> There is nothing in the code of medical ethics which prohibits doing paperwork or dealing with insurance billing. I know. I just texted some MDs and asked for their opinions. It would be pretty wild to make it possible to share a real-time health chart.