Comment by rafram
Comment by rafram 2 months ago
Privacy concerns aside, I don't really understand what the point of this is, to be honest. You can already add family/caregivers as authorized users on a MyChart (Epic) profile, which is an actual source of truth, not a separate data store that you need to update manually.
This seems like a good experiment in building a CRUD app, but I'd recommend doing that with something with less liability.
I use MyChart. It's a great way for your doctor and clinic to communicate with you.
It's not a place where I'm going to store contact information for all my doctors, or appointments for doctors that aren't at that clinic, or all my prescriptions and all the pharmacies.
When your daughter is reacting badly to her new chemotherapy, and running fevers and throwing up, and somebody needs to call her palliative care specialist and it needs to be you, not her, then where will you find the specialist's phone number?
I hope you'll never be there, but if you are, I think you'll understand.