Microsoft Healthvault Patient Safety in Question
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| One topic I've not seen addressed is the safety and effectiveness of the data
| within HV - and I don't mean "safety" as in the data is secure from
| unauthorized access or misuse. I mean "safety" as in the utilization of data
| stored in HV by other applications won't result in an unsatisfactory patient
| outcome, you know, like death or injury.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1193347315
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HealthVault: No Commitments and a Sleeping Watchdog.
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| Has Microsoft committed to keeping the promises that it has already made? No,
| just the opposite. Their privacy policy concludes:“We may occasionally update
| this privacy statement”
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| Which means that when the commitments that Microsoft has made regarding
| HealthVault become inconvenient, they will simply change them.
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http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/10/22/healthvault-no-commitments-and-a-sleeping-watchdog/
HealthVault: Failing the seven generations test
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| ...My mother died of ovarian cancer. My grandmother took a drug while my
| mother was in utero that increase the chances that my mother would get
| ovarian cancer. Any consideration given to my mothers genetic propensity to
| get cancer must take into account this environmental influence...My
| grandmothers medical record will remain relevant for at least five
| generations...How long should we be keeping our electronic medical records?
| We should ensure that they are available for the next seven generations...A
| private, for-profit, corporation is an inappropriate storehouse for records
| that the next seven generations will need. Corporations do not last long
| enough. Consider the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of the original 12
| companies that made up the index, only one is still listed...
|
| [...]
|
| But this is still Microsoft we are talking about, which all things being
| equal, is especially bad. Microsoft has a history of abusing standards, and
| using those abuses to enable and extend its monopolies. In short they have a
| history of “being evil” in exactly the sort of way that we cannot afford to
| have impact our healthcare records.
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http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/10/19/healthvault-failing-the-seven-generations-test/
PP: Negative EMR ROI, Open Systems Needed
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| “There are no standard leaders in medical software as in many other
| industries,” says another. “There are too many variations and vendors. The
| interfaces are proprietary rather than open. It is difficult to spend that
| much money, knowing that the support in the future may be limited and that
| there may eventually be a standardized software out there.”
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191860931
Use Health Vault, Lose Your Rights
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| Microsoft has announced (NY Times Article) Health Vault. What should have
| followed here is a review of the service by my actually trying it.
|
| [...]
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| Heard enough? So had I. I'm absolutely going to pass on Health Vault. In
| addition to looking like the Microsoft Passport debacle redux, this is a very
| one-sided contract. They can harm you but you cannot harm them. There is no
| way for any 3rd party to verify that their privacy and security software
| works.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191521272
GPs threaten to snub NHS database
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| The electronic warehouse, dubbed Spine, is part of the NHS's £12bn
| IT upgrade, which aims to link up 30,000 GPs to nearly 300 hospitals
| and give patients access to their personal health and care information.
|
| [...]
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| More than 60% said they feared the system would be vulnerable to
| hackers and unauthorised access by public officials from outside the
| NHS and social care.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6167924.stm
Microsoft in the NHS
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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
CfH refutes computer failure claims
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| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
|
| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/
Your data or your life
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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
|
| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
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