Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2021)

Digitization of disability certification using technology to curtail infringement of dignity

  • Abhimanyu Vasudeva,
  • Nishat A Sheikh,
  • Samantak Sahu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_961_21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
pp. 3948 – 3950

Abstract

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Privacy and dignity are the rights of every human being. The disability certificate issued has the medical diagnosis mentioned explicitly as well as the patients' photograph. A person with disability needs to produce a certificate to avail the benefits, which the law of the land accords. This article discusses the dignity and privacy issues, which may be felt while producing such a certificate before competent authorities and proposes a blinded disability certificate. Besides, the proposed certificate uses advanced technologies to link a functioning profile to a cloud-based central database.

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