Recently I had a horrible emergency experience where I cut my arm muscles in half due to a mistake with a wood cutting machine (I am recovering pretty well, thanks). The fact was I was taken to an emergency room and treated by a skillful doctor who tied the pieces of my muscles back. In the meantime I was asked, ONCE AGAIN, the same questions: are you allergic to such and such? are you diabetic? (all of this while I was loosing quite a lot of blood. And i was asking myself: I hace a 16 GB cel phone with lots of nice but useless photogaphs: Could not they have a device that would read my cell phone and take that info from there? Why is not that info attached to my cell phone?
May you know any useful papers that may describe the advances on this personal ID medical info system being adopted as a universal standard in your country or in any other country? Are there any sort of security issues that people are concerned about? Are there any present main obstacles to this sort of technology?
(if you have time please read my note in LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/near-death-experiences-uselessness-unavailable-data-octavio-f-?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish
Hi Octavio,
The problem you have faced is really serious, though pretty common in many cases. What we lack is in the supply of comprehensive medical history of a patient.
In the attached publication, I have proposed a ubiquitously accessible bag of data, containing comprehensive information about a patient's medical history. It can be uniquely identified by some biometric id and authentication procedures (which may come into use, even if the person is unconscious).
Kudos for pointing up a real issue from a patient's perspective.
Cheers!
Conference Paper Internet of Things for a Smart and Ubiquitous eHealth System
Paraq Chatterjee thanks a lot. I will read this paper ASAP. Very ASAP.
Also ichave met other interesting colleagues like yourself heavily involved in first level (primary care) infochealth systems. We are aware that a practical easy and CHEAP but quality solution to this is required to be available to all. I will pursue this topic as a first applied priority. Thank YOU.
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