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from:msnbc.comPush for better ways to share e-health records
Seeded on Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:18 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
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E-medical record is good and save a lot of papers and cost for just maintenance of those medical records.
If e-record can be shared with any other MD, such as patient visited out of state and had accident, then patient's MD can be shared with other MD upon e-signature/official request with HIPAA for emergency and/or from patient/MD's number...
e-prescription is better can be accessed by all pharmacies and MDs for patient may go here and there to get the medication from different MD, sort of example.
It is good to prevent freud of narcotics over-prescribed... and of stealing other people's ID.
No Billie,
If information is accessable on the net it can be hacked and stolen. Health information can be used in employment and future insurance coverage. Pretend you have been treated for mental illness in a state that restricts gun purchases for the mentally ill. You can easily hack into a doctor's patient files find a medical history you like and replace yours. When a check is run you show clean. Then you have a melt down because you decide to go off your meds and shoot up a mall.
I'm not buying it. If the Pentagon, FBI, banks, credit bureaus, etc can be hacked despite top security measures what makes you think for one minute your MD's office computer can't. If it's net accessable it is NOT secure and it NEVER will be.
Don't be naive