«The Responsible patient»
February 6th, 2010 by Nikita Shklovskiy-Kordi | Published in Uncategorized
Not only in the Former Soviet Union persist a strong tradition of paternalistic medicine characterized by lack of patient’s involvement in their health management and delegation of problems to the doctors and social structures.
In order to modernize health care in these countries, it is critical to increase the involvement of patients in their own health care which should be viewed as a personal duty. The project «the Responsible patient» provides medical education to general population. Creation of the National Standard of the Russian Federation «the Electronic case record», which entered in action in 2008, offers a tool for a patient to personally fill in and manage an Internet database on personal health. This concept differs from analogues in that the responsibility for gathering and storing personal medical data is free-of-charge and allows an individual to store their own health record. Technological maintenance of data input, safety and confidentiality of the storage are assigned to the provider of Internet services.
Question: how to involve peoples in management of their personal medical information?
