medConfidential defends the confidentiality you desire for your medical records.

Every use of data should be consensual, safe, and transparent. In matters of health and care, your relationship with your doctor is based on a very human spirit of confidentiality. Not the cold law of data protection.

Any large, formal system is bound to breach the Hippocratic Oath; “First, do no harm”. Data doesn’t care. In a purely digital world, a thing either is or it isn’t – with no nuance. Smaller systems, talking to each other, offer more discretion for the humanity of your situation. It is  why fax machines still work better than e-mail for the NHS.

Patients routinely find themselves in one of the following three real-world scenarios. Human situations get ignored by the database designers’ visions, forgetting the real world:

• When a doctor cannot tell their patient the full story without causing distress – such as when at test returns a  likely false positive result.

• When a doctor cannot tell another doctor something – such as where  they’ve been asked not to by their patient.

• When institutions cannot tell doctors relevant details – e.g. in situations where there is “too much data, but no clear information”.

When you are between diagnosis and treatment, which (if any) of these three apply may change hour-to-hour. Human choices are a reality, usually ignored by by those who want to copy records across a lifetime.

medConfidential defends the confidentiality you desire for your medical records.