Originally Posted by
RICHARD
DO NOT LET THE IDIOTS IN D.C. fool you into NATIONALIZED HC.
Start by looking into the multi million handouts from court cases that are so blatantly outrageous that they boggle the mind.
Put limits on what juries can award first.
That will lower the prices of malpractice insurance, the costs of producing meds, implants and services.
IT's a simple fix, take the F wad ambulance chasers out of the picture and thing wll get reasonable.
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Our prez just came out and touted the EMR-electronic medical record.
Now, All you 'privacy advocates' should take note about the EMR and the ability for hackers and stupid employees to access YOUR information.
The company that I worked for started to look towards the EMR in '89. 20 years ago-there barely got it together in the last two year to implement the system.
This same company was fined 250,000 dollars and they fired and counseled 20+ employees for accessing the records on the OCTOMOM. Private records? Nope, if you have a password to access the system, you can peek into any record in that particular system.
This also happened in one of the university hospitals, where some celebrities had their records looked at.
Another problem is someone accessing you info then having to leave that station/terminal logged in and having someone come in behind them and seeing what they were looking at.
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Part of the problems for any electronic info gathering systems is that you are forcing the RNs, LVNs, NPs and other people to waste time trying to log info into the system.
One of the new ideas was to have PDAs that the docs would carry around with them, log patient info they go back to their offices or nurse stations and down load the info into the system.
LOL, I used to find pagers, stethoscopes and even wallets in the bathrooms that belonged to them. If a doctor loses a day's worth of info on his patients, what happens then?
Even though a paper system is bulky and archaic, it put the info down on one page and it was a verifiable source is something needed to be looked at.
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In the old world, Doctor's would make a telephone order, the nurse would document that on the chart, sign the Dr's name and initial it.
Now there is no validating an order or 'signature' in the doctor orders.
Complicate that for nurses who will take the easy way out and use a terminal that is opened on another account or asked a co-worker to note the order.
In the perfect world, no one would snoop, take the easy way out or make a mistake in typing out info that goes into a PERMANENT RECORD.
Just wait, the stories of medical malpractice-another cost inducing bugaboo in HC- stemming from screwed up data in EMR systems will start to surface.
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"Hi, I am calling in for my prescription......It should be ready!"
"Nope, it doesn't show up on my computer!!!!"
"But, I spoke to my physician yesterday!"
"It's not in the computer, so I cannot help you!"
Your (insert the malady here) can wait for the data to catch up?
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