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by lliw 9y ago
To be clear, HL7 is a not-for-profit organization which has created several sets of standards over its history (HL7-V1, V2, V3, etc)--those standards are what you are referring to above. FHIR, which is what Apple is using, is its own standa
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by lliw 9y ago
To be clear, HL7 is a not-for-profit organization which has created several sets of standards over its history (HL7-V1, V2, V3, etc)--those standards are probably what you are referring to. HL7, as an organization, is very much a leader in
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by lliw 9y ago
Yes--HIPAA provides a mechanism for fines to be levied against (most) healthcare organizations that suffer data breaches through the office of civil rights (OCR), with a public reporting of organizations that have been penalized. https:&#x
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by lliw 9y ago
Two particularly exciting aspects of this announcement: (1) Hospitals include more than one EHR vendor (both Epic and Cerner), which shows multi-vendor interoperability. (2) Apple is using a leading healthcare standards organization (HL7)&#
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by lliw 10y ago
Though not exactly as you described, something similar was done and published in 2016 (largely leading to this change, since there was not an increase in mortality risk) http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE
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by lliw 10y ago
The point is that advanced directives should not be tied to a specific healthcare system. Decentralization (blockchain or otherwise) is an interesting way to make this more accessible. Practically, advanced directive knowledge requires verb
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by lliw 10y ago
A more interesting application would be storing health "meta data" - for example, permissions around viewing health data, or focused data like advanced directives ("code status"). For advanced directives, this could be r
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by lliw 19y ago
The ubiquity of US currency abroad (especially asia and south america) would strongly suggest the US dollar is not anywhere near "impending doom."