Progress: We are starting to clear up the situation with patient rights. We began to investigate and found something called the HIPAA. HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This act came out in 1996 and clears up most things about patients rights when it comes down to their medical records. According to this act, the patient has complete control over their medical records along with people and organizations that they authorize. No one is allowed to get that information unless the patient authorizes it. Institutions and doctors are obligated to give you your medical records upon request. The only thing that a patient cannot see and access are the psychotherapy notes that a mental health professional takes. These notes are kept separate from the patient's general medical records. This is great because this means that as long as the patient authorizes it, we can have access to their medical records and create electric copies that make them easier to view and access.
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Problems: Now that we know that we potentially have a huge amount of data and even a whole brand new field, the problem we have is getting a better idea of how to implement this data. Once we can get something more solid we can even look into creating a brand new business model that we can possibly patent.
Plan: We have to do more research into how to create a brand new business model and find some old ones for reference. Along with that, we have to conceptualize more concretely what exactly we want to do with the database once we have created it.
Great progress in the area of patient's right. While you are picking up the database skills, you might want to explore online whether there are some medical information services available in the market. So, you are not duplicating the work. Also, think from patient's/doctor's/hospital's/government's/insurance company's point of view to explore the needs.
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