Instead of having your hospital send your prescription to the pharmacy, through multiple companies behind your back, all of which have full access to your medical info, why not just send it in an encrypted but verifiable way to a relay such that when YOU get to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine you can grant access to those individual records to the pharmacist directly?
Sounds crazy, right? But it's NIP-82
But wouldn't they need access to some of that information BEFORE you go to pick up a script?
Actually prescriptions don't go through an intermediary when sent electronically to pharmacies,in the US at least.
A pharmacy has to comply with regulations. This does not do that.
NIP82 doesn't change the fact that they have to still comply with regulations.
Also, not every company that is receiving your medical information need to be HIPAA compliant.
how do i know, that the pharmacist is not misbehaving ? And, what´s more, I do not think, that the prescription is what is most worthy to be protected. I think most countries use diagnosis codes, right, so that not everybody can easily decipher. In Germany we have right now a lively discussion on the electronic health records.
That's why your a sharing just what's needed. And you decide if the pharmacist is trustworthy, not the hospital or the government.
