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Interesting, considering a very large business has been working on the infrastructure and programs to do the electrical medical records thing. You may have seen the commercials recently. GE. Wait a second.... Nah they wouldn't have anything to do with the current administration... /takes off tinfoil. |
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Quoted: Interesting, considering a very large business has been working on the infrastructure and programs to do the electrical medical records thing. You may have seen the commercials recently. GE. Wait a second.... Nah they wouldn't have anything to do with the current administration... /takes off tinfoil. BINGO! heard the smae thing, thought the same thing. |
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Very dangerous I've worked in IT for over 20 years and have seen a lot of breaches Health information and personal medical information is already stored electronically with your insurance provider. If someone wants it, then it can be gotten to. Some how I trust a corporation more than the government. All one has to remember the VA laptop that went missing. No tin foil, but this is beginning to sound more and more like the mark of the beast. Check out my tag line. |
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Very dangerous I've worked in IT for over 20 years and have seen a lot of breaches Health information and personal medical information is already stored electronically with your insurance provider. If someone wants it, then it can be gotten to. The more computers information is stored on the more vulnerable it becomes. The big hospitals should be able to afford adequate computer security but what about rural hospitals? The local hospital needed the town to pass a bill allowing a 1 cent sales tax increase so it could afford to build a second surgery room. If a hacker really wants into that hospitals electronic records I doubt it would be too difficult. As for the subject as a whole, I'm on the fence. I plan on going into the healthcare field and I see the benefits of doctors being able to easily access your records. I've been shown several examples of patients who died or nearly died because one doctor had no idea what another doctor was doing with a patient. A lot of people aren't smart enough to realize what drug/therapy interactions are so they go to different doctors and don't communicate between them. Electronic records will allow one doctor to look up what another doc has prescribed to a patient. EHRs are about the only piece of healthcare regulation I can stand behind but it does worry me about all of these small facilities that can't afford good computer security and an IT department to constantly monitor and make sure the information isn't being compromised. P.S. Think that paragraph is long enough that I can say I put in my 3 cents worth? 
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