What i envision is a state coordinated record that has many layers of access. As a patient i can fill my personal spaces, selecting images, describing my personality, documenting my relationships, cataloging my interests, and chronicling life events. As a physician i can enter physiologic, biochemical, and genetic data, describe health events, prescribe medication, and chronicle treatments. The state can enter educational, and legal data and events. A relationship with this database would begin in elementary school, and follow through the individuals life.
Fundamental to any electronic record is the ability to abstract it's data to find patterns. The patterns should help guide society toward increasing the overall health of it's citizens. It goes without saying that this database would be abused by certain individuals; this is inherent in human culture.
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