I am soooooo tired of filling out the new patient forms at every doctor I go to. They always ask the same questions and I answer the same things. At my first visit to the doctor in TV I had to bring all of my prescriptions..that was a load. They wanted to repeat the tests I just had I refused and told them to contact my doctor. No information was ever exchanged

The electronic medical record has been talked about for many, many years and the Medical IT industry has been working on standard interfaces, terms and codes to be used. (I have sat in on some of those discussions)

It not about monitoring its about access to vital information.