Today’s winning comment comes from Brad Garland, from our post Health Care at SXSW – Health Getting Hot With Tech Crowd. Brad asked an open question: “Why can’t we do an OpenEMR system like we are doing for authentication (OpenID). Be able to transfer and control your medical record personally instead of having the doctors control it all?”
I’m all in favor of this, as my twittermusings this morning attest. The Web could be a prime enabler of giving the user (i.e. us!) control over our medical records.
Congratulations Brad, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher – courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Netflix Queue Widget.
Here is Brad’s full comment:
“I was actually in this session as well and a thought kept creeping up in my head. Why can’t we do an OpenEMR system like we are doing for authentication (OpenID). Be able to transfer and control your medical record personally instead of having the doctors control it all?
Speaking with Tantek Celik afterwards his thought was that there is nothing we can do in this society since it is controlled by big business & government. But I think it can still be overcome. It might take the right people in the right places but decentralizing this network and giving the power for each American to control their own medical record could ensure higher reliability, less poor diagnoses, and can handle scale.”
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