Week 4 (Patient vault)

           PatientVault is a patient portal application that allows you to receive your medical records from all the different doctors that treat your health.  This application can use  any patient or doctor who wants to use the system for the sharing of health information. Also, open to developers, providing an open royalty-free SDK to any developer who wants to connect their apps to PatientVault. Aside from allowing you to view your medical records, you can also perform real-time communication with your doctor.  This includes allowing you to send attachments to your doctor such as your latest lab results in a secure encrypted way.

          This advance is very useful and is now available in the app store for android phones. Having the medical record in the cell phone must be important because if we move from the country or want to change doctors will be easier. I like this such a great idea that allows me to have my medical record available 24 hours and that others can have direct communication with my doctor. I imagine more years, the doctors  will not need offices because everything can be done with an application. Although very useful, but I do not like the fact that the contact between doctor and patient is lost, but that is not the case for this application but maybe someday invent. Science and technology advantages, but we can not lose the human essence that characterizes us. Advance science, but we did not become a robot.