A small effort gave a world of relief to a cancer patient

Every year my cousin from Australia visits home during the December holidays for more than a month. While most of time is spent sleeping, traveling, eating, getting hooked to Indian TV series and being horrified to how we drive on our roads, this year he is trying to do something useful.

His mother, a cancer survivor has been the subject of his attention. While she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and successfully went through surgery and chemotherapy, he always regrets not to having been around. So he sat down last week and began sorting all her medical reports and doctor prescriptions to feel the gravity of the horror his mother had been through. It took him a day to arrange all the papers into one file and a couple of hours to sort them in order. Then he took some time off to party.

A Steady Control On Medical Records Improves Healthcare

Until recently, health records of every patient was managed by their hospitals or the doctors. The patients have been trained to be at the mercy of their health providers to own, decipher, and act on the recorded matter of their health record. Off course, the onus of self-managing their health records too has never been quite actively been taken up by individuals.

With the advent of technology, the tide is clearly turning towards the ease of delivery while actually accepting hands on experience into new bastions. This comfort and simplicity that technology beings into the functionality can also be applied to the effort of building a personal health record system that ensures easy accessibility to these files at any time one may so require while doing so from any geography. This mobility in access to the records is ensured by the concept of scanning/ capturing an image file of your health literature and storing them on a secure cloud data space. Medical Second Opinion, a premier second medical opinion generating portal gives this service free of cost to its account holders.