Medical and/or Psychiatric Records and Their Intellectual Property Rights

The ideal intellectual property rights model of medical and/or psychiatric rights should be like a online magazine subscription. Each time these records are obtained the patient should be charged a concomitant fee for later online access by the patient of the computerized records. Nowadays there are two competing computer applications for medical and/or psychiatric records:

  1. Epic Software
  2. CareLogic Software

Medical and/or psychiatric records consist of anatomical and physiological observable data:

  1. Weight
  2. Height
  3. Temperature
  4. Oxygen level
  5. blood pressure
  6. Other more exotic data such as an EEG or EKG or ultrasound or other imaging data (CT, MRI, etc.)

The medical provider also makes subjective “observations” which can be tainted or incorrect for a myriad of reasons. These records are the ones that the medical service provider organization fears the most of revealing to the patient.

It should be a relatively easy operation using either software package to give the patient full access to all the “observations” made during a session online and at nominal cost.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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