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Re:PatientBank (YC S16) Is Creating a Unified Medical Record... by FireBeyond on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:31PM (#12263847)
Not an MD, but an EMS provider. I know that delivering patients to a hospital often results in the nurse or provider taking a history, even when the patient has been seen (recently) in the ED.

House's rule number one, patients can't be trusted. You wouldn't believe how often patients give the hospital contradictory information to what they gave me, and on the most "innocuous things", past medical history, allergies, and so forth.

So it can be as simple as 'trust but verify', or 'clean slate'.

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Re:PatientBank (YC S16) Is Creating a Unified Medical Record... by kmgrassi on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:48PM (#12263955)
It can be hard for patients manage all their health information. That is the problem we are trying to solve! Obviously, this starts with patients having more control over their data. Imagine the next patient you transport pulling up their PatientBank account and it has an up to date medication list, allergies and PMH. Instead of relying on memory they have all their information in one place - when they need it.
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