Data Privacy Mode
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Although Hemogram results are easily anonymized, this may require actions that are difficult or exogenous to the healthcare units. This may require patients' consent - which may be harder for historical records - or higher legal solutions.
The only field that maps the results to a person is the Unit Internal Identifier, which is intended to address the lag between the processing of specific testing results (hours or minutes depending on the test) and the Hemogram results (hours or minutes depending on the equipment) and may be removed once the record has been checked and completed. This field is shown only to the units' members.
The Healthcare units already have data in their historical records for using the tool and build a classifier, there shouldn't be any legal impediments to use that data internally - as they use it to improve their management and operations.
There shouldn't be also any impediments of sharing the classifier - or the classifying service - as it can be considered as sharing knowledge, just like they usually share their experience about therapies and their effectiveness in their operations.
This can be addressed by a Data Privacy Mode, where the classifier can be "built internally" and may eventually lead to sharing it and/or making the classifying service available to others.
One of the goals of this project is to improve the detection toolkit of the Health professionals, every step towards this direction should be pursued.
The Data Privacy Mode can be achieved currently by setting up authentication at a web server level, the idea is to provide the convenience out-of-the-box.
(Related to: #6)