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Re:WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) by DickingAround on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:25PM (#25189132)
If you don't mind, why exactly? You're worried the care will get screwed up? Or you worry that someone will steal that data and charge more for insurance?

I'm just wondering about why exactly the paradigm doesn't totally work here. I get that we don't want medical devices failing, but that's different than charting. And I get it that we don't want everyone to have your data. But risking that someone does a data copy vs. reducing healthcare costs seems perhaps a risk worth taking (and it's not like the insurance companies who actually charge us money don't already have it).

Re:WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) by roywiggins on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:26PM (#25189848)
Because reducing health-care costs seems to always mean increasing healthcare profits. Why would they pass those cost reductions on?
Re:WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) by kjs3 on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:33PM (#25192203)
Oops...last patch inaccurately reported test results, so we did the wrong treatment.

Oops...last patch didn't include all the drugs the patient was on, so we prescribed one with bad interactions.

Oops...last patch mixed up MRI images, so Patient A is being treated for patient Bs cancer.

etc., etc., etc...

Our bad...we'll get to it in the next sprint.