[IxDA Discuss] Application design in health care domain

[Grady Kelly]

Lorraine,

   With the patients permission, you can share data.  At my last employer,
we had set up the state of Delaware with a system that allowed Physicians to
view lab and other data across all participating hospitals and clinics.
There are also precautions in place so that if a Doctor looked at data that
they should not be allowed to see or share, that the system tracked those
actions.  In some cases, a Doctor may need data without being able to get
the patients permission, like they are unconscious, for situations like
that, we called it "breaking glass" like you would have to do to set a fire
alarm.

One of the biggest things right now in that space is sharing data.  If you
think about it, it is a must.  The design just needs to help them be
responsible with the data.

Grady Kelly
grady at gradykelly.com
http://www.gradykelly.com


On 11/5/07, Lorraine.Carter at sun.com <Lorraine.Carter at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I understood that HIPAA  prevented nearly all data sharing. Is that not
> the case?
>
>
> Lorraine
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