Electronic Records Don't Improve Health Care says a report from HHS http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ Shifting to Electronic Medical Records makes since, to make medicine more efficient thereby reducing administrative costs, in other words a business decision. If government mandates it, then it is a forerunner requirement to prepare for government take over of health care, Socialized/universal healthcare. The government caused the problem with health care in America by over socializing medicine to the extent it is not completive. http://www.InteliOrg.com/
Dr Coles
of CA
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Mar 03, 2008 17:13:39 PM
Electronic Health Record
While certification is the rule for medical records/health information technicians and administrators, and even now for coders, it is not in any way the rule for medical transcriptionists.
In spite of the common cry, "Voice recognition will put you out of a job," the fact is that VR cannot function without a human to make sure the information is correct. VR doesn't "think" and cannot identify context or meaning.
With the move to outsource more transcription, healthcare institutions are losing control over their medical information; particularly with the move to outsourcing these services overseas.
Medical transcription services generally employ people they never meet. They depend on online testing and telephone interviews. The fact that so much patient information is moving around so freely without much incident is a credit to the dedication of medical transcriptionists across this country.
However, in this situation I feel we are ripe for disaster if local and national government representatives do not listen to the professional organizations including AHIMA and AHDI who are trying to bring this situation to their attention.
I don't know about you, but this is starting to scare me.
Patricia James, CMT
of WA
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Mar 03, 2008 13:46:14 PM
We need compensation for identity theft
Although our society is too litigious and I generally dislike it, we need laws awarding compensation for identity theft. In the last 12 months alone, my medical insurance company allowed my records onto a laptop which was stolen or misplaced, and my info was also stolen by hackers after I visited a high security government installation. It is ridiculous to think your information will not be compromised as long as there are no laws demanding that you be compensated when it happens.
T Mooney
of NJ
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Mar 03, 2008 13:43:58 PM
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luise
of CA
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Mar 02, 2008 06:10:37 AM
Adhere to HIPPA and No Ads
Google Health could be a great time saving and money saving convenience to patients and hospitals.
Although, Google will need to override it's natural impulse to litter Google Health with advertisements, particularly from drug companies.
I understand HIPPA compliance as I worked in a hospital.
Yet, is it possible that when a patient pulls up their medical record on Google, a cookie, tag or mark is initiated whereby that patient could be specifically targeted with specific advertisements, on the site relative to their medical condition after viewing their record?
Is some information hypothetically say, ten million patients utilizing Google Health, with some form of heart disease conducive to spiderability (and ads) from their online check in's of their charts?
I know the question sounds farfetched...until it happens. Google is known for site ad placement.
Adrienne Zurub, Author/Speaker
of OH
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Mar 01, 2008 06:12:54 AM
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