When I first started my new blog, I wanted to post at least one post a week. But just like everything else I have not being able to post at least one

Can a company vendor lock patient data?

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2021-05-28 07:30:03

When I first started my new blog, I wanted to post at least one post a week. But just like everything else I have not being able to post at least one blog post per week.

COVID-19 was on the rise, and doctors were in short supply and therefore, me and my colleagues were taken out from our Health (bio)-Informatics course and were assigned to work at different hospitals.

The place where I’m working at the moment is a small hospital far away from the capital, and most of the things we do are paper-based.

I was having this idea, what if we can connect the ICU and the hospital lab? Once the sample is analyzed, doctors can see the report from the ICU from their smartphones, or via a portal at the ICU. Won’t that be great?

Rather than a paper-based system, doctors can even see a timeline of investigation reports and their values. There won’t be a delay in getting the report, and you don’t have to worry about losing the report since they are no longer paper-based.

Today, I went to the hospital lab to discuss a way to connect the two. However, I instantly realized that it’s far complicated and frustrating than I imagined, thanks to a vendor lock over the data.