Philippe,
Your "two organizer" insight is probably the strongest insight I have
yet heard on this issue.
Perhaps we should be looking at bluetooth technology instead of USB
systems for a portable, patient carried EHR.
This way, Outlook, Evolution, or Whatever you use, can be updated with
information from your patient record.
Thus when your Primary Care physician tells you to see a specialist,
that appointment can be made, and stored on your USB Key/Bluetooth
device, and that device will update you calendar with not only the date
of the event. But the Name and Contact Information of the Doctor that
you are going to see.
The PAN or Personal Area Network idea is to make these sorts of things
possible.
If that would work then the system would begin to empower the patient
the way that the systems that I write are designed to empower the
doctor.
Also if health records could be standards based then this system would
simply be just one way of implementing the standard usefully.
At any rate... good point about the patients calendar.
> the patient has non medical appointments on its planning, and he
> could not use two separate organizers : one for the several medical
> appointments, the other for the every day life appointments (you can guess
> that the medical appointments would be forgotten if written on a scarcely
> accessed system).
>
> I believe that this "tale of organizers" can usefully explain the conceptual
> foundations of Odyssee and the "personnal health project" :
> - First the system must address the great issue : there is a referential
> change between the HP and the patients.
> - Then the system must become an "every day use" tools for the persons if we
> want it to enter the health management domain.
>
>
> Philippe
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