I have been working on the frontend in some application that registers patients. Hospitals use HL7 messages, a standard, to communicate test results and diagnoses:

Here's an example of a HL7 message that bounces through the network, if you want to think of it in simple terms it's like text messages that hops from a diagnostic tool into some internal database or record that holds patient information such as name, address, etc, through a local network:

For example, if I changed the patient ID from 123456 that is the ID for say Jonathan Smith and I change the patient ID to 133345 it will link to Mrs Anderson. Would I be able to spoof these messages in a way that say person A's MRI-s or other lab results link to person B.

Example

Just out of curiosity. What would happen if we developed something like an artificial nervous system or probes that attach to the brainstem that allows certain physical sensations or symptoms to be emulated in an another person who has the same implants, all of this - remotely.

Here's an example of a potential way to abuse this:

What happens if someone sleeps on his side on a rough surface. For example, I start rough sleeping on some boulder and the curves press hard against my ribcage. I would experience piercing pain.

I may be tinkered around so that I experience none of this pain, but another person who has this may experience a piercing sensation in her ribcage and chest. She goes to the doctor to see what's wrong. The doctor takes a few measurements or does some tests and HL7 messages start going back and forth on the local network.

If some hackers or anyone who has access to this system changes say the ID of the patient to a lung cancer patient.. Could the results be faked in a way that the person who experiences piercing pain in her ribcage will 100% believe that she has cancer and starts on chemo?

Then, there's two possibilities. One possibility is that she will start receiving chemo to a point where she dies of radiation or gets extremely sick. Sedation nowadays is dangerous, I speak from experience. Another possibility is, say, I start sleeping on a soft spot. Then, some pharma companies can claim that cutting edge chemo or whatever therapy cured her. Everyone involved gets enormous amount of recognition and profits through immense corruption.

If someone integrates such system over 15 different hospitals, then, with enough effort a single individual can be blamed for all sorts of diseases. Say, consuming sugars could get others diagnosed with diabetes. Smoking can get others diagnosed with cancers. This is one possibility in which the HL7 messaging system can be abused and as far as I know local hospital network are extremely insecure and these messages keep bouncing back and forth between diagnostic tools and the patient registration systems. Someone could for example assassinate royals to move power dynamics to politician, who can be bribed way more easily by external donors than say a well raised royal family with strong values.

Something to think about for the future. I noticed that our technologies are accelarating rapidly and our vision is just simply not the same. How will this be used? Will politicians start assassinating royals? Will dollar billionaires and rich donors start shifting political landscapes?

I really enjoy these thought experiments. Sometimes I wonder if people really knew my thoughts would they perceive me as a katatonic schizophrenic? Someone whose personality works like a linked list. Because I'm strange.

Then, I wonder what would happen if the observers could comment on it, or reply to it - through tech or in some other way - and conclude that I'm just a schizo. and I would reply that I can't be a katatonic schizo, because I have full 'disease' insight and the lack of insight is one of the main symptoms of this disorder as well as thought broadcasting and I do feel like my thoughts should be broadcast. If I could convince that I may have been able to make predictions that become realities - if not immediately but a few years later would they start questioning if I am human? and if not would they just ask if I am sentient? Then I would prove it by pretending to sleep and then thinking if I had to prove my sentience then pretending to sleep would be a great example.

Imagine the future where they will discover about all this crazy tech with synthetic neurons and medications that bind to things in the brain and alter consciousness and can act as a remote pain killer or any other medication. Would the most common use case be to put everyone on a cocktail of drugs and try to force psychiatric patients on them? Or to force people to psychiatric patients to consume and advertise these imprints? Would the pharma shilling be extraordinary? Would the politicians try to demonstrate things and do dumb things like use MITM and display a whole bunch of fake and gay articles to justify actions taken against the spread of misinformation? The left has demonstrated it in the past that calling individuals conspiracy theorists can discredit them and their opinions were discarded. If it was me and I was one of those vile politicians, therapists or whoever who would have interest in this I would just accuse someone like myself as a schizophrenic or a con artist. Especially, because of my long history of cannabis abuse and looking so strange through the eyes of the outside world and CCTV. I smoke cigarette butts because I have noticed, that something like 42 chemicals have been eliminated from it and I could doubt this but I did notice that my teeth no longer gets yellow. I sometimes wonder if something has been removed what has been removed and why. That's all I wanted to say since early this year but it would have been a slightly bit too difficult to find conversation partners and I have a feeling that other than the secret services no one would have taken these things seriously except for maybe neuroscientists that work in the field of neural interfaces and a few other dudes who thought about the same things. I wonder if something like this will be discovered in the future and how one would even be able to tell it to anyone without being ridiculed.