The biggest problem in my mind for such things is not the security though
that is important.
The biggest problem is getting the information to be actually used by
medical personnel. I cannot relate how often the nurse and doctor both ask
you to answer questions to which the answers are already in the office
records accessible from the same computer on which they are inputting the
answers. It is not that they are just verifying the answers in most cases
as evidenced by the doctor who comes in after the nurse does her thing
asking the SAME questions.
My mother was once in Banner Gateway Hospital for 7 days. Five times
during her stay she was asked a question to which their system had the
wrong answer. Five times (on different days) we gave the correction. Five
times the person made a correcting entry. On checkout it was still wrong.
Turns out the corrections were not corrections at all, just notes in the
patient record and no one was processing them.
Later that week I met with the Chief of Nursing to compliment her staff and
to comment on how overworked they were. During the meeting I related this
story as well as a couple of notes that had been made for doctors who
turned out to have never seen them. I was told that it is a long process
to get doctors and hospitals to actually USE the records in the Record
System but they were sure getting better at making the entries. SIGH !!!
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:41 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, Everyone has good security until someone does something like take a
> disk home or there is a break in and the server gets stolen... or there is
> a hack.
>
> I understand you want a simpler life. I also understand that some are
> willing to give up their rights to feel safer. I disagree with both.
> Anytime you add your information to a database, no matter what the
> database, you are subject to it being compromised and your data being made
> public, as in my example.
>
> An I understand it is a personal choice. Until it is required by law I
> will not put any of my medical info anywhere.
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Wed, 3/13/13, joe@actionline.com <joe@actionline.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: joe@actionline.com <joe@actionline.com>
> Subject: Re: OT: (or not?) What is the best PHR Personal Health Record
> service?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 2:05 PM
>
>
> > I think Joe is talking about personal tracking... not some central
> > service,
> > right?
> > Eric
>
> Actually, no, I am interested in finding/choosing an online PHR.
>
>
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