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- I would like to get a look at ablvgbls's medical records.} You have to take charge of your medical care and learn all you can about the drugs prescribed to you. It would be a shame to survive two wars and three campaigns to have the doctors kill me with prescrip[tion drug side effects. Its up to you. If your doctor has the God syndrome you need to fire his or her a&s swiftly. It is imperative that you don't end up as part of a private study on patient prescription drug study.
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- it has been at least 12 hours since I've read about a network security breach. seems like a great time to put everyones medical records online.
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- my doc has been doing this for years, and my med records are available at each of the hospitals in the city where i live. it makes it much easier most of the time, but there still are hangups, including admitting nurses who fail to notice on my records that i'm diabetic (even when i've told 3 er nurses and an er doc), or that i take high dose steriods for an autoimmune disorder. i also carry a medical alert flash drive on my key rings that contains all my meds, brief medical history of conditions being treated, insurance info, and emergency contact info. all of that also is printed off and in my car and in a medical information bottle stashed in my fridge, with an emblem on my house doors indicating i have that bottle, so that in case something happens to me at home and i can't speak for myself, paramedics can find out what they need to know simply by going to my fridge.
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- I like the idea of electronic medical records from the perspective of giving your doctor or emergency personnel a complete record of your history. With that being said, here are my issues..
1) Yet another potential avenue to have your identity stolen (Historically the government or private industry hasn't been particularly careful about letting people handling these records carry them around on a laptop that at some point goes home and gets stolen).
2) Potential employers could use them as a factor in hiring (how many sick days, how much will you run up insurance premiums)
3) Health insurance companies could use them to deny coverage or as an excuse to to hike premiums.
4) Life insurance companies could do the same.
6) Banks and credit cards could use them to determine creditworthiness and interest rates (bad health, you may not be able to work=credit risk)
7) State DMV and auto insurance providers could adversely use the data (what kind of drugs are you on). - Reply to this comment
- Considering the capabilities that we have, it's appalling that we don't utilize the technology afforded us. Schools continue to waste billions of pieces of paper when documents could be filed and sent electronically. I would be happy to view, then transfer my children's homework to their computers, wait for its completion, check over and send back to the teacher. I could retain a digital copy in case the computer dog eats it.
Doctors' handwriting has been responsible for deaths and severe damage to patients. An electronic script would avoid deaths and save millions in wrongly filled prescriptions. WHY is it taking so long? Lazy, lazy. - Reply to this comment
- This should be a no brainer. I work in a City far removed from my physician's office in another State. A ER physician should be able to put in my identifier and download my medical history. What is the holdup other than some MDs might need some IT training?
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- The problem with keeping all your electronic medical records is that they soon baloon to hundreds of pages of irrelevant materials that no one has time to go through. If you don't believe that, Just try to leaf through a hospital chart. The trick is to distill the important information that the doctor needs to know. As example, housedoc.us, an on line communication service between doctors and patients, has a one page template where the essential information can be kept, that can be quickly accessed by the patient or physician whenever necessary.
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- Indeed, this is all part of slowly introducing the mark of the beast. Step 1: Introduce a electronic Medical record system, Step2: Make it mandatory some 5-10 years later. Step 3: Introduce true electronic commerce (all credit and bank information on one little implanted chip!) Step4: Make it Mandatory. Once that happens, you have fulfilled the mark of the beast and I bet the masses will welcome in with open arms, just as predicted.
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- Being a person who is in the IT business, I have seen this two different ways. The old docs vs. the young docs. Younger doctors have no problem with electronic records. Having grown-up around computers and using them to get through college they are very used to using computers for everything. Old docs, on the other hand, have been doing things the same way for the past 20 years or more and are quite reluctant to give up their proven methods.
EMR is the way to go. It will save time and money and more importantly, space. I think it will just end up being grandfathered in to place. Money IS an issue. Not to mention (but I will), that docs are extremely frugal. They have no compunction in buying a $50K medical scanner but ask them to buy a decent PC for $800 and OMG you have asked them to have teeth removed. - Reply to this comment
- CYAWD= COVER YOUR A&S WITH DOCUMENTATION.
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