OT: (or not?) What is the best PHR Personal Health Record service?

[Eric Cope]

I think Joe is talking about personal tracking... not some central service,
right?
Eric


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Ok,  So you do this and someone by mistake adds that you recently had an
> STD.  Was not you, however now this info is all over the place.  Then there
> is a security mishap and your records are made public and now everyone who
> sees your public records thinks you had an STD, when you had not.  Maybe
> someone at your church sees this mistakenly public release.  Then the rumor
> mill starts....
>
> About 8 years ago some bureaucrat took a disk home that contained the
> records of 2.6 million veterans.  His house was burglarized and the disk
> stolen.  It contained names, DOB's and SSI #'s.  It was against policy for
> that data to leave the building where he worked.
>
> Too much technology concerns me.
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Wed, 3/13/13, joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com>
> Subject: Re: OT: (or not?) What is the best PHR Personal Health Record
> service?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:54 PM
>
>
>
> Thanks to Keith Smith, Michael Butash, and AZ Pete for your responses.
>
> Keith asked, in part:
> > What is our Primary Care Physician doing?
> > Do you really want a central repository of your medical records
> > for the Gov to poke into?
>
> As AZ Pete pointed out, The gov't already has almost all the info
> so ... my point, like Pete's is ... it's about time individuals
> should have access to their own records.
>
> > What is the benefit?
>
> There would be tremendous benefits!  Here are just a thoughts:
>
> First ... Thank God, I have been remarkably health all of my life
> and have but very rarely needed to see a doctor for anything.
> Hoever, the inescapable hard reality is that each and every one of
> us is going to need medical treatment for something if not multiple
> things at some point(s) in our lives as we age.
>
> So, why should one have to fill out the same medical history
> information (99% of which is probably irrelevant) every time one
> sees a new or different doctor or specialist?
>
> Personally, I really could not care less what anyone else sees about
> my medical history or current conditions (though I certainly agree
> that some security to protect such information rather than posting
> it all on facebook would obviously be prudent).
>
> Recently, I changed doctors, and after my new doctor sent a fax to
> my previous doctor with my signature "releasing" the records, long
> delays, and no response, I finally had to drive to the previous
> doctor's office to talk the former doctor into releasing *my*
> records to me and pay for copies to be made.  Ridiculous.
>
> Then I had to go to three different specialists, including primary
> care, opthamologist, and neurologist, and fill out all the same
> medical history information for the first visit at each place and
> take copies of certain records from one place to another. All of
> this a huge and needless nuisance that having a "PHR" resource would
> have avoided.
>
> Moreeover, all the recent information lacks important background
> information.
>
> I want any and all doctors, dentists, chiropractors, and any other
> health-care professionals (as well as my wife and other family
> members) to have easy and fast access to any of my medical records.
>
> Also, when traveling to another state or country, if I should need
> any kind of treatment, I want that same kind of easy and fast
> access.
>
> There are dozens of other benefits (i.e. having universally
> available accurate information on any past or current medications,
> side-effect reactions, current med interaction risks, allergy info,
> vaccination records, family history, previous conditions info, and
> continually updated, up-to-the-minute treatment reports, etc.)
>
> The real question is not, "What are the benefits" but rather, "Why
> not have any and all applicable information uniformly available
> instantly, on-line, to any and all health-care professionals one
> might use anywhere one might move or travel?
>
>
>
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