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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (21289)	12/11/2001 12:05:28 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Art, at our hospital, which I feel is quite progressive... ...we are merging clinic, lab and hospital databases into a single archive so that for an individual patient each of these records can be assessed from a single screen. This also includes an appt. scheduling module and some link to prescription fills, I believe. I don't know if the system does billing, but I suspect it might be able to. Many hospitals have each of these functions on proprietary servers and archaic software programs. This makes it difficult to unify data so that they are available at a single source. Until this is worked out it will be difficult to market a data card. Also, the data needs to be secure, but also available to "friendly" computers like a clinic or hospital one might visit while on vacation. I don't believe that would be possible until everyone agrees on a unified storage format. A large community hospital where I work once or twice a month has set up a web-based record retrieval system. I suspect you could access data remotely with a password or key if you were to get ill while travelling. All you would need is Internet access. This is the good news. There are large healthcare organizations out there who have all their ducks in a row and have the resources to invest in IT that will greatly facilitate patient care. Right now our clinic is all laptop based with a wireless LAN set up in each clinic building. The next step will be to support handheld computing, then the health card may come into play. I still think we are a couple of years away. We do need a better ID system than the current drivers licenses and social security cards. We need the pocketable equivalent of a passport that would be multipurpose. I read an brief piece on Italy's latest ID system. It is based on Drexler's optical cards. These cards are quite expensive, but can be tailored to the needs of the country that issues it. I hope we are heading in that direction here. Personally I am willing to sacrifice some privacy for the added security of such a system. Aus

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