The healthcare industry requires a new class of IT services management. Current solutions fall well short of online security and compliance requirements. Nevertheless, there are new ways of addressing the fundamental issues at the heart of HealthTech.
Computing's potential to assist health professionals starts with Practice Management Systems (PMS) in clinical settings, and extends to a cornucopia of online services for patients' pathology, imaging and specialised medicine.
The impetus for a central repository, to help govern the delivery of patients' health records, has fallen foul of numerous contesting agendas. The solutions became a problem in their own right, with patients' privacy making headlines, along with doctors' frustrations at 'too many administration tasks'. 'Nobody uses it, apart from spotting drug-seekers'.
The best solution to any intractable problem is to not have it. SovereignSilo advocates the step change necessary to simplify the role of computing in healthcare, by putting world's best practice security into patients and doctors hands - with no intermediate systems/agendas.
SovereignSilo is a coalition of domain experts from healthcare, IT security, governance and compliance, enterprise systems architecture, solutions design, quality assurance, online marketing and usability design.
This group has invested two years, to date, in realising SovereignSilo's core objectives. The expertise necessary to realise this class of service is not typically working in healthcare or IT. Military and aviation meets obstetrics..
The recent advocacy for 'Private Silos' in Apple and Google's security requirements is now underwritten by Tim Berners-Lee's own initiative in this area. It's a Thing.
"When a patient walks in with a couple of puffers and mentions they 'had a stroke a while back', my heart sinks".
The biggest single problem in healthcare is communication. Despite/because of countless services to arbitrate the ~distribution of patients' clinical history, there is very little that accompanies even the most acute presentations.
Doctors spend the bulk of their efforts on forensics/sleuthing patients' background/health issues.
Patients' rightful concerns WRT privacy make matters worse, with most consults being conducted through this filter. Patients lie to their doctors, because they need to.
Addressing these issues alone opens up the crucial aperture of trust, that enables medicine to happen in any room, at any time.
Our primary objective is to simplify the stewardship of patients' record keeping, in any setting.
Communication between doctors and their patients' various contacts is the weakest link in our healthcare system. Giving patients a trustworthy service to carry their consults, referrals, imaging and pathology reports makes each patient their own keeper.
Patients arrive, equipped to provide vital context and continuity, regardless of the clinical setting or circumstance. Patients' trust in their doctors' privacy arrives with patient. There are no third parties in this room.
Better healthcare outcomes at significantly lower cost stem from this autonomous trust/transparency.
There are no PMS or patient records management platforms that employ 'Sovereign Privacy' design patterns or solution architecture. None.
There is no impetus for this class of technology in PMS 'practice-centric' licensing model or state level platforms 'vendor driven' consultancy practices. There's simply no money in giving patients and doctors autonomy WRT this information's stewardship.
SovereignSilo stands apart in this regard. Changing the governance of patients' data, in a manner that removes corporate or state agencies from this role, is a lonely path.
Fortunately, the collective will of increasingly sophisticated and informed communities is awake to this class of services. It's not just academics and security specialists who recognise the role of 'SovereignSilos' in healthcare.
Ask Apple/Google/Tim Berners-Lee. They get it.
Feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions. We'd be happy to help in any way we can.
