On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > >After so many cases of "abuse of power" from around the world, credibility > >will be quite difficult to achieve. Any guarantee is only going to be as > >good as its perceived strength. How do you propose to backup such > >guarantees? ... > Information archiving, retrieval and update cannot be completed without > the Patients active participation. The Payer and Provider can each hold > a key that individually and together cannot create access to the > information and join the constituent parts.
Sounds very interesting. What do you mean by "active participation"? Does the patient hold/present a key too? > It is not the traditional all-in-one information storage. How does it work? > The number of keys can be variable. Unless you convince the Patient and > their support groups to participate the records are neither accessible > nor complete. What if the patient loses his/her key? Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
