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Originally Posted by laceylady
Goodness! Our medical records in WA state have been electronic for at least five years. I worked for Social Security Disability for 30 years. In 2005 ALL their medical files became electronic. Many people in the Villages are on this program. SSA, the granddaddy of all bureaucracies, worked with doctors, hospitals and clinics nationwide to convert their records to electronic form. This is not 'new' in 2013. It is the 21st century and computers rule! There are far more benefits to electronic records than there are problems with them. The complaining about so many issues on this forum sure gets tiring. We sound like a bunch of 'crotchety old people'!
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Finally all of my doctors have seen what each other have done, right there on the screen. My in-laws had several doctors each, in the same hospital system, none of whom communicated. it landed my mil in the hospital with a serious blood infection due to being over prescribed very heavy steroids. She almost lost her eyesight, and was on the way to losing her life, all from doctors who never communicated with each other--some out of ego arrogance, some out of ignornce, some out of laziness to look up and read the records. My sil and husband had to nail these doctors to the wall and demand they effect some kind of records communications.
That is inexcusable, and that is what this new system is supposed to prevent. And now we have computers to facilitate that process, and yet people are complaining, making up all sorts of scenarios where this will abort our identity protection, etc.... You may like the old system, but times have changed; there are fewer doctors for more people, and they have to come up with a safe way to transmit patient information internally.
It'll be no satisfaction to you, if the irs can't get a hold of your medical information, if you happen to be dead due to lack of timely record sharing by your doctors.