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- am a hospital Doc, electronic records, while useful...will not save the billions that the Administration is hoping for. ----------------- Posted by Stevenapoli7
Electronic Billing Edits already save tens of millions of dollars a year, and POS electronic meds dispensing and tracking saves lives - as a doctor, you should know that. - Reply to this comment
- I am an MD that has his own practice and we have used EMR--for more than 5 years..electronic medical records..make things more legilble..BUT do NOT improve quality of care..paper is more flexible. Medical records are now less about medical care and more about billing and as legal document. Are there advantages to EMR--there are. BUT this is clearly not the panacea it is portrayed as and it clearly makes doing many things MUCH harder. Plus now you are at the mercy of technology which develops indigestion at times and crashes for no good reason. Technology is quirky and is only as good as the programs that are written..at this point the programs have a LONG way to go
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- It is simply amazing that Every person making comments in this section are actually using the technology that they are bad-mouthing. I would suggest asking a patient at the Veteran's Healthcare System (VA Hospitals) how easy it is to have your blood checked and by the time you go up stairs to see your doctor - Those tests are ready for review. CT Scan results (in the VA) are immediately available for review - IMMEDIATELY. I can go to ANY VA hospital in the nation and my records are there. I can go to a doctor NEXT DOOR to another - and those records takes literally Weeks to arrive and are Paper-Hardcopies that require Re-Review. This Stupid fear of medical records "On Line" is pure ignorance of what "On Line" actually means. For those who are fearful of such technologies surely wonder why they can't see the beyond the horizon since they believe the world is Flat.
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- There are 1000's of middle and older age doctors out there that are nt computer literate. They will make mistakes trying to use this technology and the patient will suffer as a result. The savings, like all Government estimates, are woefully overstated.
The Audacity of Deception! - Reply to this comment
- 1 out of 10 doctors will look at my X-rays and realize there are extra ribs and vertebrae. The others never notice it.
Not even digital records will improve your chances for medical care. Do you know a surgeon can sit there and talk to you telling you about this procedure he is going to do on you....then you get put under and some new kid operates on you....they will never tell you the real doctor never operated on you or even was in the room where the surgery was done?
There is no Federal Law requiring a doctor to tell you if he will actually be the one operating on you. Could be some college kid trying to get his hours under the knife in. Federal Law doesn't even require the real surgeon to even be in the operating room. Only in the Building. Even then it's not enforced seeing how the patients are under anesthesia and can't check. Maybe they all go out and play Golf?
Yet they try and push off this bar code scanning as our saviour. Please. - Reply to this comment
- great article. I think that each person should be implanted with RFID Tag to really help with this process. Buy them here: http://www.cybra.com
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- For successful doctors.
Smedisoft, based in India has developed EMR applications ( 14 applications so far). It is 11 years old company. Software are made by team of doctors and software eng. R/D is strong point of smedisoft. Work can be viewed at smedisft.com It has got futeristic approach.
Dr Rajiv Aggarwal
Medical Director
smedisoft.com
9810343304
Delhi India - Reply to this comment
- When I went to the emergency room I answered a litany of questions about my medical history while the attendant typed the answers into my records.. When I was placed in a room, for the next four days every new doctor or nurse that came into my room asked me the SAME QUESTIONS. And this is even in the same hospital. What good are electronic records if they aren't used??????
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- Electronic medical records do save lives. Have you seen your paper medical chart compared to an electronic chart? You have to take control of your own records- Remember that your records could be breached easily whether paper or electronic, just like your on-line bank account or your wallet. Electronic gives you a better shot of being able to find it all in one place when you really need it.
-DocMatcher.com Team - Reply to this comment
- We have seen how protected computer information is in real life. Credit card records, Secret military hardware plans,passport information and insurance information, none of it is secure. Now you want to put everyones medical information at risk. I say when they can show how it will be protected and who and how it will be accessed , maybe then. Will my doctor keep access when I change doctors? We have seen how medical records have been protected in hospitals.
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