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advances in data communications in the field of medicine
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interoperability and medicine improvement.
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How interoperability can improve medicine.
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Interoperability refers to the ability to operate a secure
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system that allows instant access to and sharing of
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health data and information among authorized stakeholders and only
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authorized stakeholders no matter where they are located.
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Interoperability for artificial intelligence and big data
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digital technologies such as artificial intelligence
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and the large scale analytics subsumed
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under the term big data are increasingly changing medicine and healthcare.
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The goal of this is to crucially grow digital medical data
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when given an analysis of patients medical records,
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it could be provided from hospitals,
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different laboratories and other medical professionals and
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crucial and high risk patients patients.
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The necessity to be able to access data from various places increases greatly.
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An interoperability makes it more efficient and faster to get the data needed.
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I know if I was somebody who was
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going through something and I wanted answers quickly,
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I
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I would hope that the medical professionals will have
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would have a way of doing that and interoperability
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can help that and that speed and that time like it could be crucial to some people.
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It's a life or death situation in most cases and I really think that
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interoperability can improve medicine.
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I'm sure we have all been in a position where we have had
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to work with more than one medical professional at the same time.
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From personal experience,
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I know how difficult is getting medical records from one
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doctor to another and how time consuming the process can be
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using the international standards and terminologies mentioned previously
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can therefore help to ride algorithms with structured
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and meaningful data and foster the use of
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artificial intelligence and big data in medicine.
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I'm sure many of us have had to get an MRI.
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And the process of getting an MRI is probably one of the slowest processes I've
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had to go through.
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You have to first get an X ray. Then doctors have to give you a script for the MRI
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and then you have to find a place,
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find a medical radiology center that
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can get you
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an appointment and then you have to call back
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the orthopedist that wrote the script for the MRI
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and then you have to fax the script over to the medical radiology please.
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And by the time all the information is processed and put in the system,
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it
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It takes about four or 5 days I know from my personal
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experience at a really slow process with trying to get an MRI.
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And
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just all that stress of making all the phone calls,
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getting all the facts, numbers,
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trying to get the paperwork's all sent over because I had to use two different
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medical facilities and work with multiple multiple doctors and
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from personal experience it was just a really
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time consuming and difficult process.
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And I really think that if
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the places I went to had more interoperability
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and big data,
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if things could have moved a lot more quickly for me
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medical communication
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interoperability for medical communication
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in many cases simply making the right information
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available to the right person at the right time
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can significantly improve patient care
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while seeing multiple doctors at once.
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There are many parts of their medical history that get misplaced.
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This can cause serious complications when trying to diagnose and treat patients.
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If we could use interoperability to improve the communication
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between medical professionals,
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we can avoid serious miscommunication and
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provide patients with exceptional care.
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For me, just thinking that there could be miscommunications between
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medical professionals is
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terrifying.
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In 2007 I was diagnosed with Epilepsy and
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it was just such going through such a big thing in my life at
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such a young age and I met with doctors from all across the country,
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different states and
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yeah,
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obviously I was too young to understand
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but I'm sure if I had known that if my doctors had,
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we're having miscommunications and
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my medical histories were getting misplaced and records were lost,
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I would have been terrified.
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That's just something that you don't even expect to happen.
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And the fact that there's something out there that can prevent that is such a huge
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like advancement that we don't take
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into consideration unless unfortunately we've had it
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happen to us and in that case I really wish that on no one
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promoting the use of interoperable electronic health records.
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Interoperable interoperable phrs reduces the
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need for physical medical documentation.
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Each ours also make it possible for patients to view their own health data.
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They could go back and look at the notes their physicians have taken.
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I really never understood electronic health records until recently.
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I went to the doctors and
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they were asking me questions about doctors I met with when I was younger and
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like when I when I had certain illnesses and when I was diagnosed with
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certain things and the fact that they had the ability to go back and look
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to almost
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the first immunization I got as well.
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I was in the baby in the hospital was crazy
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because you don't think that they know all these things and
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it's also kind of scary to think about all the stuff that's in these computers and
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what
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I think that's a whole nother topic of protecting patients. But
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I really think that electronic health records
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are the most are the quickest and most efficient ways to get
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the answers.
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A lot of doctors need
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medical research.
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Interoperability for research
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using the data,
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the interoperable formats providing collect increases
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the advancements of medical research.
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If we can make real real world data,
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interoperable and give access to the data
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to researchers at the national global levels.
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It could really open up the way we go about curing certain diseases
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by comparing data and also staying up to date on all new research,
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everyday things evolve
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in medicine and
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certain like
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diseases. We don't yet have cures for. We're finding out new things every day
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and if all
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medical research around the world had access to these to this data,
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it's like a puzzle.
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You just start slowly putting pieces together and
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eventually you're going to get the whole picture.
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And I think that would
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put us in a great position
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with diseases. We don't yet have cures for
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COVID-19. Do we believe the spread of COVID-19 epidemic
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could have been controlled throughout the world if interoperable
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data and research was shared throughout the world,
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wow.
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I do believe the spread of COVID-19 epidemic could have been controlled.
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If all the countries had worked together as one. I think
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the
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the lack of communication between
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the country's caused a lot of confusion and fear and a lot of people
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and every country was coming out with their own theories and their own findings and
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it was moving at faster rates than it was in some places.
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And that caused a lot of fear for a lot of people.
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And I really think that that all could have been avoided.
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If we all would have just came together and made one plan
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to work together.
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International health data.
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Yeah.
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If we had the ability to share health data internationally,
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why wouldn't we a disease could spread within
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hours to multiple people throughout the world.
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I think we all witnessed this with COVID-19.
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If we as a world could have been
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more connected pandemics could be more easily controlled
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disease control.
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If health data are interoperable so that information
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can be easily exchanged across borders and organizations
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effective surveillance systems can be established that allow
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for an accurate tracking of global disease movements,
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outbreaks can be detected early and further spread prevented
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health I. T. Systems
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Iot devices monitor patients which provides doctors with information 24/7.
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An IOT device
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is a physical device
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that connects and exchanges data with other devices and
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systems over the internet or other communication networks.
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And this process speeds up
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the findings that are the information that doctors required to
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treat patients and treat them at a fast rate.
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And I really think that
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that's such an advantage and advancement because it wasn't always like that.
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We didn't always have this technology that can help us.
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Data analysis contributes communication of information.
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Um did analysis is a process that
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the goal of the process is to discover information
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and helps with coming to helps doctors come to conclusions about
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about certain diagnosis and
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it supports the decision making. It has evidence and it backs up their findings.
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Oh
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privacy of medical data
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keeping patients medical records confidential is
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crucial Throughout the health care system.
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Data scientists have the important job of keeping
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the big data away from the hackers.
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HR data systems are constrained due to a lack of interoperability
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size of data and privacy.
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This unique cloud based system
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proposed to store HR data from multiple health
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care providers within the facility of an internet provider
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to provide authorized at restricted access to health care providers and patients.
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This was never really think of something I thought of
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until
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reading this article
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all our medical
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the downside of technology and putting all of our medical data
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online is
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making us vulnerable to being hacked and having
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confidential information leaked. And
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I don't it gives them
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access to your identity and payments and all of this stuff was online.
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I never really thought that at any moment
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a hacker could
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get into your medical records and they have everything
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and that's just something that's really scary to think about.
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And I'm glad that there are these data scientists that
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are working to prevent that and run tests and create
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Softwares to install into computers that the doctors
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use so that these things could be avoided
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growing with technical technological advances
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protection of patient data with the growing technology and
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the use of social media and the private things.
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So many people put on social media.
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This sets back the process of anonymized sing data
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due to the personal information that we all put online
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when it comes to medical records.
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Many are encrypted with one time passwords and a two factor
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authentication process to enhance the security of the confidential records.
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I know I take it like we all go on vacations.
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We've all been away from home and we all post about it
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if you're in the hospital. So like I know teenagers
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been going when they're in the hospital they put a picture up so
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people can say things like I wish them well and all that.
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But if one person finds out where you are and what
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hospital you're going to and they can get into the system,
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they have all your information
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and that just
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adds more to the data. Scientists who are already trying to protect them from
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multiple hackers
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and I
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when I heard about the one time passwords and the
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two factor authentication process to get into certain medical records,
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I just really think that there needs to be more security or
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something that
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is harder to get into because as a computer, as a cybersecurity major,
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I know that we can't always rely on one time passwords
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and the two factor authentication process to keep us safe.
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Mhm
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conclusion
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as I'm sure all of all of us have been to the doctors before.
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We can all agree that some places don't run as efficiently as others.
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With the help of technology, the entire health care system can improve
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patient care will be improved as well as diagnostics,
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the miscommunication will be avoided and patients
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get the chance to access their own
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medical records and history and any notes that doctors have on their visit.
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I know as a patient knowing that
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at,
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as a patient who has only ever grown up around technology,
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I never really thought of how life was
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before. All this, all these technological advancements
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going to the doctors when we get to the doctors most of the times
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they hand us a tablet and we fill out our information on that.
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And I just think it's really important to
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appreciate how far we've come
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and how much all these technological advances are helping us and
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curing us and
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Diagnosing us 10 times faster than they used to be able to.
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And it's not something that's thought about a lot.
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And personally, I never really thought about it until this assignment. And I'm
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shocked at the things I read and
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overall I'm just glad that
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we have advanced as much as we have for not only the
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health of us but the protection, the patient care, the information,
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the resources that the doctors have makes life much easier for them.
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And I think without that
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times would be very different,
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especially going through all the things we've gone through
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within the past
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two years, almost