Looking Outside of Your healthCareBox
April 17th, 2010 by TheKidd
You may already know it. You may already work in it. If you don’t, thanks to our Prez, you should get into it. "Medical ID" is coming like a freight train. It will be a standard faster than you know it. It will clunk like an old VDub, but its here to stay, and it will be the engine that CAN!
In the next few years, businesses large and small will race to find qualified, certified leaders in the IT development field to pull off one of the biggest feats in US history. It has already started! We have to take a whole lot of misinformation and process it down to the nitty-grity for the rest of the continent.
I just have to say…this is one billion times bigger than Y2K! This is Zombie Land on steroids. This is F***ing huge!
We will be expected to provide…
- An all-in-one system, which protects doctors, patients, and even insurance companies.
- It will keep all data secure (haha, hrm, the stories!)
- Be able to import medical records from an array of programs, none of which, know how to speak with each other fluently (‘csv’,'dumbass?’)
- Use standards set forth by Microsoft all the way to Open Source
- Able to detect and decipher complex diagnostic codes
- Hopefully define a new system for those diag codes (since the UN, the US, and Europe can’t figure out that you need more than 6-7 characters to diagnose a disease and a treatmeant:::Face in Palm!
- Ultimately, back to security, a very good way to share all of this information with the right people, the right services, the right computers, at the right time without vulnerabilities.
No one has pulled it off yet. Not IBM, Microsoft, or GE. On top of it all, to get on board with them, you have to buy their software. That sounds good if you have deep pockets, but what about the small businesses of the world. We need a truly open standard. Something we can all download, run, and debug. What can we do to protect them, help them, and make a healthy profit? After all, we have to eat right?
The medical market offers many opportunities for all of us in this SH*TTY economy. We should take advantage.
To the .Net Programmers who don’t get kewl Intel commercials featuring them!
You know who they are…the ones that make the world go round.
Sláinte (that means to your health…with a Guinness in your hands!)
What do you think? Comments are appreciated!
I came across this post entirely by accident…
Check out HL7 for health communication protocols. In the UK, we have independant systems that (almost) all communicate basic data via HL7 messages with a backbone system (cunningly called Spine), which acts as a central store. If your health record is on the Spine system, you can walk into any doctors office or hospital in the country, and they can access your medical records given your unique National Health Service Number.
I work for a company that supplies systems to the health service in the UK, so if you’ve got any questions you’re more than welcome to drop me an email (email address is listed on my somewhat limited website)
Wow that is interesting Mike. I may take you up on your offer. Thx!