Show HN: Get your health records from any doctor

I would strongly encourage my patients to stay a mile away from this enterprise. Any outfit that can say "Health is inherently social" does not have the right attitude towards PHI, in my opinion. Any association with Facebook only enhances this opinion, due to their history of "privacy creep." To be clear, I think patients should be informed and access their records if they choose. But be very careful about any social media exposure. Once it's out there, it's out there.

Don&#x27;t have a Facebook account. Don&#x27;t want a Facebook account.<p>Even if I did, I wouldn&#x27;t want it anywhere <i>near</i> anything related to my healthcare. Requiring a Facebook account to sign up was a huge mistake.

Health records is a great space. 2 quick things that jumped out at me, the first is the iPhone feed that showed one user saying they just got a colonoscopy (my thought is that patients typically do not and would not share that type of info), then second down below it says health is inherently social, I do not know that this is true, I believe health is very private and often for good reason (insurance companies used to use such info to reject claims and insured for preexisting conditions, maybe not the case anymore with the reforms. But employers or potential employers can use this info to make hiring decisions). My concerns might sound far fetched and creepy but they are legit concerns on how people can use this info.<p>In truth I hope my initial concerns are all wrong and you find a huge market. Best of luck.

&gt; &quot;Get your health records from any doctor&quot;<p>Awesome! Sign me up!<p>&gt; Health is inherently social &gt; Provide context for your friends and family by sharing real health information seamlessly. Focus on communicating about your health rather than communicating the technical details.<p>Yeah. No. Goodbye.<p>I would love to have all my records all in one place.<p>But why in the world would I want to share my high blood pressure&#x2F;high cholesterol&#x2F;chicken pox&#x2F;herpes&#x2F;aids etc. checkups with my friends and family?

&gt; Health is inherently social<p>Maybe wellness is inherently social. I am a huge fan of Strava.<p>But there is no way I would give three guys in Oakland access to my medical records.

I work in medical informatics, so my opinion may be biased.<p>Yes, people need access to their data. No, heath data is not inherently social. Sharing specific pieces of data with specific people does not mean health data is inherently social. I would seriously consider rebranding your efforts as a personal health data access mechanism that can also be specifically shared in the finest ways with specific people. And for the love of all that is holy, disassociate yourself from Facebook. Add your own sign up with email. Do not oauth with any other provider. As soon as you add FB&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;etc. you open the door to your customer having to ask the question about whether or not they want those companies having access to their data. Even if you say they will not, your customer will have to make a judgement call as to whether or not that is true.

&gt; Amanda Huggankiss<p>&gt; You tested positive for Herpes, Hepatitis, Chlamidia and HPV<p>Health and wellness has never been more social.

Good idea, horrible messaging. I doubt anyone thinks that health is &quot;inherently social&quot;

homepage error: link for &quot;Not a member of a current Prime provider?&quot; is <a href="http://stayinyourprime.com/%10#providers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stayinyourprime.com&#x2F;%10#providers</a><p>Also, higher-level: how should potential customers check if their provider is already on Prime?<p>Finally, my first question when I see a service that will help me with sensitive, private data <i>for free</i> is: who is paying for this? Maybe the providers are paying; maybe the plan is to sell &quot;non-personally-identifiable&quot; data; maybe there will be ads and&#x2F;or targeted 3rd party offers; but if the site is secretive about its business model, I assume the worst. In this case the privacy policy seems to suggest the latter two options, which are bad enough for email hosting, but really quite dangerous for medical data. The process of pseudonymizing medical data is difficult and necessarily imperfect; so the consumers of any pseudonymized data need to be responsible parties.

I work in the healthcare space. This seems like a HIPAA nightmare, but I;m sure they&#x27;ve thought of this and I would be interested in their strategy for dealing with HIPAA.

&quot;Get your health records from any doctor&quot;<p>We must have a different definition of &quot;any,&quot; since this will not get them from my primary care physician. His records are not computerized. (If I don&#x27;t pay my copay at the time of my visit, my bill is typed on a typewriter.) He started practicing medicine in the late 1960s, joining his father&#x27;s practice. I&#x27;m sure that some older doctors, in smaller towns (I&#x27;m in a D.C. suburb), are the same way.

I think there has to be some more stronger reasons to justify sharing medical &#x2F; health information with friends. Sharing that with my health providers may be a good idea but definitely not with friends.

Why would providers partner with you? I work in healthcare and I&#x27;m having a hard time imagining how you sell this to them.

What efforts are you doing in the medical community to get them using your service?

No android? Meh.

&quot;Health is inherently social.&quot;<p>No. It&#x27;s not.

The copy on that page brings this to the brink of Poe&#x27;s Law. Maybe they&#x27;re just ahead of their time.