Posted on 09/27/2010 5:02:42 PM PDT by scottfactor
Ok, pay attention all of you technology gurus! (just kidding)
How may times have you heard of your friends and relatives getting hacked or opening messages that contain viruses? I’ve heard quite a few, myself. Fortunately for most of you, you are wise to the scams that are lurking on the interweb and you try your best to avoid them. You’ve done a good job at keeping your information out of the hands of bad guys, mostly by limiting the number of people that you allow to have your information. Then, in steps the federal government.
That can’t be good.
In the wonderful government bail out of our economy…you know, the one that didn’t work…there was a ton of money allocated to set up a system of maintaining your health records electronically. In reality, it’s a noble idea that would lend itself to making your critical care information available to a doctor that may save your life one day. The money made available was to help local primary care doctors get this system moving without a lot of out-of-pocket expense to them. Guess what? Well, use your head…the government is involved.
Houston Neal, a writer over at softwareadvice.com, has written a wonderful piece about the action, or lack of, that this program has taken so far. According to Houston, we have a problem. He says there are some flaws with the program. I say…Imagine that! A flaw with a government boondoggle program! Anyway, here’s his beef with it:
1. The doctors aren’t moving very fast on it.
2. The free market already has the things the morons in government say they want to create.
3.The system limits free market competition, typical of the socialist Obama government.
4.The regional centers won’t get doctors to usage fast enough…translated, the government is slow as molasses.
5. The socialists can’t staff the regional centers fast enough.
In short, we have another broken program from a broken program. Does that make sense? It does if you follow government policy and have experience in government programs. They just don’t work.
Keeping that in mind, let’s get back to the original thought. Do you want your government creating a central repository of all of your medical information that may one day save your life? I say, ”NO”, because the government has never saved anything.
You thoughts?
Its worse than that, these laws have forced consolidation of companies that support healthcare. They have created significant costs for the remaining companies.
The govt is also coming down hard on companies silly enough to think they have any legal rights.
A medic alert bracelet works just fine. You can get them custom-engraved for your specific needs.
Get over the idea of electronic medical records storing your health information. In reality, the physician is required to fill in a government intrusive, detailed questionaire that makes taking out a home loan look easy.
Whatever medical complaint you have has to fit in the boxes, and is for the governments benefit not yours.
Questions include, “Do you have guns in the home? Are they secured?” And they are working on questions regarding sexual preference. If you have a governmen funded clinic in your school they are asking these questions of young children.
All part of the winnowing of America, but they will keep the chaff and deep six the grain.
This is Lethal
There is a disturbing tendency for
filling in blanks with useless data,
to “Pad” the event, to increase the reimbursement
with the “More Complete” Documentation,
which is, in fact, meaningless clutter.
Worse, data is sometimes fabricated de-novo,
such as a 10-Point review of systems,
that was never actually done.
Lazy History taking,
compounded by Cluttered Documentation,
Diluting the must important thing,
The Decision Tree Analysis of the Physician
Seems to me the most dangerous threat of all to our Liberty. As said above the databases will consist of checked boxes. They will then run their systems and take away 1) your children 2) your guns 3) your driver’s license 4) your freedom at any whim of the DC elitists. They will decide that this “group” needs therapy or “re-education” or innoculation or whatever.
My BIL already wrote one for GE.
A new doctor I saw last year had a list of questions that I answered politely until the “Do you have any guns at home?” when I bluntly told her that is is none of her fu+*ing business. I never went back. The real funny thing was that she was obese, about 100 lbs overweight... Definitely an Obama voter.
The sad part is, small rural communities desparate for medical services opt for federally funded clinics along with electronic medical records.
They are staffed by rural Docs and nurses who need jobs but hate e.m.r.’s.
State and local officials will not back them up when they resist certain questions.
Solution: Get government out of medicine and tort reform.
You folks are missing the point entirely.
Electronic records are being introduced to make everyone familiar with the concept.
When National Health Care is fully implemented you will be required to have your ELECRONIC medical records with you at all times;so you can receive the proper care of course.
RFID chips have already been classified as a Class II medical device.
Please connect the dots.
Eyes
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