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Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by thetylerhayes »

colinbartlett wrote: post #8

Don't have a Facebook account. Don't want a Facebook account. Even if I did, I wouldn't want it anywhere near anything related to my healthcare. Requiring a Facebook account to sign up was a huge mistake.

We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook.

We use FB to verify identity and help make it easier for you to invite friends and family, the people with whom you're already sharing your health info. Everything stays private within Prime.

Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by willimholte »

rjbwork wrote: post #6

I work in the healthcare space. This seems like a HIPAA nightmare, but I;m sure they've thought of this and I would be interested in their strategy for dealing with HIPAA.

We're fully HIPAA-compliant, as Tyler mentioned in another comment. Data is encrypted, and isn't stored on the device. HIPAA (and specifically MU Stage 2) is actually more helpful for what we are doing than anything else; letting patients get access to their records electronically is a hugely important step towards solving major problems in the health industry.

Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by rpedela »

rjbwork wrote: post #6

I work in the healthcare space. This seems like a HIPAA nightmare, but I;m sure they've thought of this and I would be interested in their strategy for dealing with HIPAA.

In what way? The technical aspects of HIPAA are pretty straightforward (although a lot of work), and it appears the user is in control of who can see their data.

Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by jtheory »

thetylerhayes wrote: post #11
colinbartlett wrote: post #8

Don't have a Facebook account. Don't want a Facebook account. Even if I did, I wouldn't want it anywhere near anything related to my healthcare. Requiring a Facebook account to sign up was a huge mistake.

We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook. We use FB to verify identity and help make it easier for you to invite friends and family, the people with whom you're already sharing your health info. Everything stays private within Prime.

This may be fairly reasonable to explain to someone with technical experience, but I imagine even among technical people you'll find serious resistance in slightly older generations. I'm pushing 40, and my life is focused around the net, but I still have a Facebook account partly only because my wife canceled hers (too much of a time sink...), and I check it maybe once a month, with a browser profile I use only for Facebook.

Eh, it's not a disastrous problem -- this seems like it would be something you can change without any serious reworking of your central offering. You could also have a one-time, optional Facebook connection where the patient could authorize you to grab their contacts, and then have no further contact with FB.

Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by anactualmd »

I would strongly encourage my patients to stay a mile away from this enterprise. Any outfit that can say "Health is inherently social" does not have the right attitude towards PHI, in my opinion. Any association with Facebook only enhances this opinion, due to their history of "privacy creep." To be clear, I think patients should be informed and access their records if they choose. But be very careful about any social media exposure. Once it's out there, it's out there.

Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by rpedela »

thetylerhayes wrote: post #11
colinbartlett wrote: post #8

Don't have a Facebook account. Don't want a Facebook account. Even if I did, I wouldn't want it anywhere near anything related to my healthcare. Requiring a Facebook account to sign up was a huge mistake.

We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook. We use FB to verify identity and help make it easier for you to invite friends and family, the people with whom you're already sharing your health info. Everything stays private within Prime.

Yeah, but many people, especially in the developer community, have a knee-jerk reaction to sharing private data on FB even if that isn't what you are doing. You could easily alleviate the fear by supporting other OAuth providers and allowing people to use their email address to sign up.

I really like the concept BTW!

Re: Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

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Post by merlinsbrain »

thetylerhayes wrote: post #7
stevewilhelm wrote: post #4

> Health is inherently social Maybe wellness is inherently social. I am a huge fan of Strava. But there is no way I would give three guys in Oakland access to my medical records.

Point taken. Not sure what Oakland has to do with it — we're located across the street from Kaiser Permanente's headquarters of 11,000 people in Oakland — but I think I see where you're coming from. You don't know us. And you deserve the best level of security. Some more background on us: I worked at Disqus for 3 years. I spent time on the Product team and helped engineer some of their tools too. Owen is a fantastic…

I took the liberty of emailing you on the address on your HN profile :)
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