Distributed Storage Healthcare — The Basis of a Planet-Wide Public Health Care Network

Kakouros, Nikolaos

doi:10.2174/1874431101307010001

“…While this would not impede medical treatment, nor cost a hospital anything in ransom money, it nevertheless constitutes a serious breach of privacy. 11 And there could be little done to stop a hacker from using the information they have gained from blackmailing particularly vulnerable patients in a more traditional way.…”

Section: Caveatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Orzylowski¹,

Fleshner²

2019

UWOMJ

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Electronic medical records are increasingly vulnerable to hackers exploiting the consistent lack of cybersecurity expertise in hospitals. Since education in digital hygiene will likely never truly conquer the absent-minded nature of humankind, it could be worthwhile to implement the distributed system of InterPlanetary File System, reducing the incidence of patient records being held hostage by hackers, but possibly increasing the incidence of data breaches for informational gain only. (Included as first paragraph of main article)

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“…It has been concluded that it is feasible for a distributed healthcare network to scale to provide planet-wide care (Kakouros, 2013). The socio-economic feasibility has not been demonstrated yet; there are very few precedents of using distributed networks in healthcare.…”

Section: Distributedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare in the Digital Age - The Future of Health Records

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<p>Electronic Health Record software (EHR), is used by medical professionals regularly to interact with patient records. The functionality of this software is key to public health, however the quality of this software does not match it's importance, or its cost. Developing innovative healthcare software is a difficult due to the inherent challenges of complexity, risk, and distribution faced by healthcare software. In response these challenges, this thesis proposes Barnett: a novel system to store, share, and interact with health records across institutions. Notably, this system moves control from the vendor to the user - through iterative, crowd based improvement, and ownership. This allows the system to fit unique, and varied user needs. Barnett was developed through an interdisciplinary qualitative research process, grounded in perspectives from design, software engineering, healthcare; and interviews with healthcare professionals. The survey of current EHRs, healthcare models, and the design process indicates that developing systems which enable a faster iterative cycle of design, development, and distribution is potentially a more sustainable approach to electronic health records.</p>

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“…It has been concluded that it is feasible for a distributed healthcare network to scale to provide planet-wide care (Kakouros, 2013). The socio-economic feasibility has not been demonstrated yet; there are very few precedents of using distributed networks in healthcare.…”

Section: Distributedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare in the Digital Age - The Future of Health Records

Slevin¹

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<p>Electronic Health Record software (EHR), is used by medical professionals regularly to interact with patient records. The functionality of this software is key to public health, however the quality of this software does not match it's importance, or its cost. Developing innovative healthcare software is a difficult due to the inherent challenges of complexity, risk, and distribution faced by healthcare software. In response these challenges, this thesis proposes Barnett: a novel system to store, share, and interact with health records across institutions. Notably, this system moves control from the vendor to the user - through iterative, crowd based improvement, and ownership. This allows the system to fit unique, and varied user needs. Barnett was developed through an interdisciplinary qualitative research process, grounded in perspectives from design, software engineering, healthcare; and interviews with healthcare professionals. The survey of current EHRs, healthcare models, and the design process indicates that developing systems which enable a faster iterative cycle of design, development, and distribution is potentially a more sustainable approach to electronic health records.</p>

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Distributed Storage Healthcare — The Basis of a Planet-Wide Public Health Care Network

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