Small Health Card from Smallest Healthcare System
My provincial healthcare card goes in my wallet. It's a very typical card, so boring I'm not even going to pull it out to see if it has a magnetic strip, who cares, even if it does they probably don't use it. When was the last time they swiped your health card? Do they swipe them at QEH? They don't at SMH. At least not last time I was there, I think she typed the number into a green screened terminal.
I want an open-source highly secure card with the most helpful data on it regarding my health. It would be easier to develop a high tech health card with a smaller healthcare system like PEI's, and by high tech health card I mean standard credit card size media probably a plastic card with a stripe just like the standard plastic card. Who invented the credit card? Why do I have more info on my credit cards than my health card - I value my health more.
And not just the card, but a scalable swipe based network to back the card up. Ya' know.
And pharmacies swipe it, and my doctor, the hospital, ambulances.
Maybe a secure web page based history using my health number as a URL.
Info link on a card doctors could view with a Treo?
Extending my health record (BP, pulse, blood sugar readings) thru my cell phone (SMS my BP to PEI Health when I take it at the pharmacy.)
Providing cell phones equipped with health tools to the infirm (rollover minutes plan I guess?)
Designing an actually useful, low impact system by talking to doctors, pharmacists, nurses, admins, dbase guys, ambulanciers. And patients, or future patients like me and you.
Then when it's all developed and debugged - sell it to the mainland!
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