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Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by mmcclure » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 3:47 PM UTC

Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
davidgerard.co.uk

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by tanseydavid » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:28 PM UTC

I really appreciate being made aware of this author, so that I know in the future to avoid his writing.

He desperately needs an editor (an editor other than his spouse).

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by sctb » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

tanseydavid wrote: post #2

I really appreciate being made aware of this author, so that I know in the future to avoid his writing. He desperately needs an editor (an editor other than his spouse).

Could you please try to be less rude and also tell us something we can learn from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by godzillabrennus » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

I recently worked on a yellow paper that outlines a data exchange with no centralized authority that puts ownership and encryption responsibility of that data back onto the users of the network. It's a data exchange not a blockchain because all data should be mutable and nullifiable. Blockchain is the wrong technology for so many things that it's been hyped for.

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by djyaz1200 » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:49 PM UTC

To be generous to those proposing blockchain for health records I think their intent to suggest that it be used for the access/authentication layer of a more conventional secure database, but that's just a guess.

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by pvaldes » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

sctb wrote: post #3

tanseydavid wrote: post #2

I really appreciate being made aware of this author, so that I know in the future to avoid his writing. He desperately needs an editor (an editor other than his spouse).

Could you please try to be less rude and also tell us something we can learn from? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Visually looks a little messed up. Could be improved IMHO paying attention to some standard typographic rules.

Do not use a mix of several fonts and sizes in the same article

Choose good fonts. I wonder why is so trendy nowadays to use the thinnest font available and put it in an low contrast gray tone. It puts a innecessary strain in the eye of your public

Cheap fonts have a badly designed character spacing. The same problem happens here. Some letters look more closer than other and this is plain wrong in typography. All characters must create an uniform word and all words must have clear boundaries.

Fix your line spacing. Needs more height here for the same reason.

Plan your design and take care of the flow of your text. Do not randomly displace the beginning of some paragraphs over the other paragraphs without a good reason. Split your page using some strong vertical lines. Not a vertical zigzag pattern.

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by EnFinlay » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:04 PM UTC

pvaldes wrote: post #6

sctb wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please try to be less rude and also tell us something we can learn from? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Visually looks a little messed up. Could be improved IMHO paying attention to some standard typographic rules. Do not use a mix of several fonts and sizes in the same article Choose good fonts. I wonder why is so trendy nowadays to use the thinnest font available and put it in an low contrast gray tone. It puts a innecessary strain in the eye of your public Cheap fonts have a badly designed character spacing. The sam…

I am personally grateful for every blog which does not go out of it's way to follow "standard typographic rules" because so many of them end up looking identical.

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by thatoneuser » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

djyaz1200 wrote: post #5

To be generous to those proposing blockchain for health records I think their intent to suggest that it be used for the access/authentication layer of a more conventional secure database, but that's just a guess.

How would it actually solve a problem that couldn't be solved more conveniently with current standards?

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by 9HZZRfNlpR » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:10 PM UTC

tanseydavid wrote: post #2

I really appreciate being made aware of this author, so that I know in the future to avoid his writing. He desperately needs an editor (an editor other than his spouse).

Really sad seeing people bashing people who still run websites and blogs. No wonder everyone's using the spyware funded centralizes sites.

Editor for personal blog? Are you serious? It was a great read, we need it instead of tweeting 90 char snarky tweets.

Re: Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

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Post by everfree » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:11 PM UTC

thatoneuser wrote: post #8

djyaz1200 wrote: post #5

To be generous to those proposing blockchain for health records I think their intent to suggest that it be used for the access/authentication layer of a more conventional secure database, but that's just a guess.

How would it actually solve a problem that couldn't be solved more conveniently with current standards?

It would provide an auditable, tamper-proof database with an immutable history, accessible by all health companies and not controlled by any one health company.