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* https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tattooing-in-jewish...
It's amazing the lengths the medical industry will go to avoid simply giving patients their digital medical history on a flash drive. And here I thought requiring a faxed request, arbitrary waiting period, printing the records onto dead trees, scanning them back in, and burning a CD to mail made for a large moat! "We can't trust you to keep vital information about your own body, so we'll literally just print it into…
Issues with digitizing and/or making medical history easily accessible to patients is a completely separate issue.
It's amazing the lengths the medical industry will go to avoid simply giving patients their digital medical history on a flash drive. And here I thought requiring a faxed request, arbitrary waiting period, printing the records onto dead trees, scanning them back in, and burning a CD to mail made for a large moat! "We can't trust you to keep vital information about your own body, so we'll literally just print it into…
The article mentions developing nations; this technology is being researched to provide a solution for vaccine records in places where it's only reliable option. Issues with digitizing and/or making medical history easily accessible to patients is a completely separate issue.
But yes "developing nations" is a convenient excuse to dial the paternalism up to 11. Presumably the people there are still people, who can remember facts, retain paper records themselves (eg vaccine cards this article so quickly dismisses), and have identities for keeping local paper records and digital ones in the capital. If you still think tattoos would be a worthwhile addition, then every patient still needs to be given an individual choice, preferably with visible ink to maintain informed consent.
It's amazing the lengths the medical industry will go to avoid simply giving patients their digital medical history on a flash drive. And here I thought requiring a faxed request, arbitrary waiting period, printing the records onto dead trees, scanning them back in, and burning a CD to mail made for a large moat! "We can't trust you to keep vital information about your own body, so we'll literally just print it into…
The article mentions developing nations; this technology is being researched to provide a solution for vaccine records in places where it's only reliable option. Issues with digitizing and/or making medical history easily accessible to patients is a completely separate issue.
As someone who values their privacy and anonymity I don't like this. I don't want records or identifiers embedded in my body, full stop. > the medical record is stored and controlled by the patient within the patient’s skin Can the patient remove or alter it? If not I don't feel like it's accurate to say they "control" it. >the patches deliver a pattern in the skin that is invisible to the naked eye but can be scanne…