Re: [Gnumed-devel] The future of patient care computing?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:29:01PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> > 2) how a doctor using GNUmed may wish GNUmed to interact with an external
> > system in which the patient may be managing their own health information.
> >
> 
> A readily available choice would be IndivoX
> http://indivohealth.org/
> 
> This is one-way however. No information to be pulled from a PHR.

Conceptually I wouldn't go so far. I don't have a problem
with patients entering their daily high-scores re INR or
Glucose or pain VAS or allergy symptoms

(whether I care is another matter ;-)

However, that would happen via a controlled, indirect
channel into the medical record.

> This is one way but there are numerous. While I have thought about this for a 
> long time I have yet to understand the benefit of it. 

In this there isn't much to think about for us. Part of the
world population will be a Quantified Self eventually. There
will be a desire (not necessarily a need) to "browse the
current written state of health". It may amount to
salutogenesis by providing a feeling of being empowered and
an understanding of self-responsibility by "being in charge"
and "taking control". Powerful factors in getting and
staying well. Far more relevant (to MOST patients) than
whether to administer bisoprolol or metoprolol.

Karsten
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