If you have ever had a loved one in the hospital that has stayed there more than a few days you know how big and unwieldy the stack of paperwork gets.
The chance for errors or just for nurses/doctors to give up looking through the pile of papers to see what's what with the patient is too great.
However, allowing the federal government to have access, or to try and create a way for it to be easy to transfer electronic records from hospitals to insurance companies, employers, etc. is another thing entirely.
Like every other electronic initiative of the government it will be sold for all the right reasons, but implemented for all the wrong ones.
Brings back memories of the rose law firm records and all the other records that a rat admin. had on private citizens. Wake up America.
Do you know how incompetent insurance companies are with electronic record keeping? If it’s not on the computer screen, then it must not be is the motto of hospital staff and insurance company workers. Imagine how much worse government will be without accountability!
We had this happen recently with our insurance company. They blamed someone else in the chain of medical records. It turned out that the insurance company was the problem, but until we got to the root of the problem, no one believed us when we told them that we have insurance and that something had to be wrong with the insurance company’s records.
Right, never any chance for errors in electronic records.
If you like the Post Office or FEMA, you’ll just love government-controlled medical records.