Obama's Electronic Medical Records Scam

[mikesilvia]

Here's more evidence that government "cures" are inevitably worse than the "diseases" they seek to wipe out. Buried in the trillion-dollar stimulus law of 2009 was an electronic medical records "incentive" program. Like...

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[shrewsbury]

This article is junk, this program is needed, and helps in ways that improves patient care and diagnosis.

sure there are some flaws and people who will try to take advantage of it, but this is a much needed tool.

[Wickabee]

Is she seriously arguing that medical records shouldn't be updated and put on a computer?

[tpeichel]

The problem is that no standards were approved, so one company is going to build a system and it won't be able to share data with a system built by a different company.

[Wickabee]

The problem is that no standards were approved, so one company is going to build a system and it won't be able to share data with a system built by a different company.

So essentially a monopoly of sorts has been created, is the problem? Or is this like the PC vs MAC thing in the 90s?

[shrewsbury]

actually that is false and there are standards, in fact there are implementing them as we speak. it is better t not have a monopoly on the software, this will only lead to higher prices and less solutions for issues that arise.

and data can be shared via different software, the biggest challenge will be a central server to store it all, and controlling access.

[tpeichel]

Not necessarily a monopoly. If I'm with Blue Cross for ten years and then change to another provider, ideally I'd take my electronic records and give them to the new provider. Without coding standards though, I don't see how my data would easily transfer to another system. For instance, it there is a field for your name and one system uses "first_name" and the other uses "firstname", the data won't easily transfer.

[Wickabee]

True enough. If it's true that there are no standards (and that seems to be challenged) then that's a problem, but not a full on failure as it's advertised in that article. Otherwise (and even if it is true) this sounds like another in a long line of "I don't like Obama, Democrats or Liberals of any kind and will criticize everything they do" articles. Add in the author, who is quite adept at complaining about anything a liberal, especially Obama, does, and this article is basically worthless.

Funny how she writes almost exactly the same as Coulter, but doesn't get near the recognition. I wonder why that is...

[*censored*]

This article is junk

I saw it was by Michelle Malkin and assumed as much. Thanks for saving me a few minutes.

[shrewsbury]

no, you would not take your electronic records with you. they would all be stored on a central server, where people with the right credentials could access your records from anywhere. If you changed doctors they would simply access your existing records via your SS #.
This not only improves treatment, but in an emergency situation, your records can e quickly accessed to check for medications and treatments you may be on.

this already exisits within most agencies, the key is finding a way to centralize it. any code can be recoded, just like any encryption can be decrypted if you know the key.

the biggest and often most overlooked obstacle is the added time it takes to document this way.