My wife's new clinic will be running OpenEMR, an open source medical records program. Sometimes patients (or their other doctors) want copies of their records. Rather than kill trees, I am thinking about putting their patient record on a stripped down linux live CD, along with a specially configured version of OpenEMR.
This would have interesting "evangelistic" consequences for both Linux and OpenEMR. To do this properly, the patient data portions of the live CD should be password encrypted. Also, it would be nice to have a very fast CD writer, with some kind of automagic labelling system so that the CD gets a readable label before it is handled by people (we don't want to accidentally swap the CDs going to two different patients). A live CD has the additional advantage that we are no longer dependent on the patient's own dodgy home PC security for protecting their medical information. If they want, they could probably mount their hard drive and copy the information to it, but anyone smart enough to do that may be slightly more clueful about security, and assumes responsibility in any case. And as I understand it, many Linux Live CDs boot on intel Mac hardware reasonably well. How does this sound? Would you like your own doctor to do something like this? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
