April 1

 

e-patient stories, general, hc's problem list, medical records, news & gossip, reforming hc, trends & principles

Imagine someone had been managing your data:
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Next anecdote about poorly managed medical data: Amen! Just had an incident where my SS# was attached to a different patient’s name in the electronic med record. And the health facility will not tell me where the error occured, or how long someone else’s name was linked to my ss# and my medical record. Discovered [...]

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e-patient stories, general, hc's problem list, news & gossip, reforming hc

E-Patient Discovers Significant Flaws in System, Spin Doctors Get to Work

It is absolutely amazing to watch the unfolding saga the moment a real patient enters real data into Google Health from his hospital’s medical records. The way the marketing folks tell us, this is a seamless exercise that gets you up and running on personal health records (PHRs) like Google Health instantly. The reality, as [...]

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