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U.S. to Dole Out $1.2 Billion for Health Records Technology
Washington Post ^
| August 21, 2009
| Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Posted on 08/21/2009 6:48:26 AM PDT by La Lydia
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I this Big Brother information gathering, or progress? There is a provision in the House health care reform bill that would put everyones records into an electronic government database for the government to use in determining whether you can get a specific treatment. My primary care physicians clinic uses one of these systems, and it can come in handy. If I have to go to a specialist, the specialist has access to my medical records, test results, x-rays, etc. and doesnt have to wait until a printed copy of that information arrives at his office to treat me. He can access it on the database WITH MY PERMISSION. I dont have a problem with that. But I have HUGE problem with the government taking over these private databases, putting them out of business, and accumulating this kind of Stasi health-care dossier for every member of the public.
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posted on
08/21/2009 6:48:26 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: La Lydia
Government trying to promote efficiency?
HA!
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posted on
08/21/2009 6:54:09 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: La Lydia
Guess who’s heavily invested and advertising for this technology?
GE.
Follow the money.
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posted on
08/21/2009 6:55:46 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: La Lydia
I am working with a company that has already developed a working product.
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posted on
08/21/2009 6:55:57 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: La Lydia
I bet your info can already be accessed WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.
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08/21/2009 6:56:22 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
To: La Lydia
why not have individual portable data files?
This is like that old lucas movie THX-1138(number?) where all people are just numbers handled by massive databanks
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08/21/2009 6:56:59 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: La Lydia
Very funny, as it is the Federal Gov. that has made the most useful functions of electronic records and bill paying illegal to use, via COBRA restrictions on privacy and the Byzantine requirements of Medicare.
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08/21/2009 6:57:11 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: longtermmemmory
This is like that old lucas movie THX-1138(number?) where all people are just numbers handled by massive databanks You already are. Look at your SSN.
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posted on
08/21/2009 6:58:10 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: La Lydia
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posted on
08/21/2009 6:59:16 AM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C Clarke)
To: La Lydia
How conveeenient....the feds can keep track of which sickly elderly or weak premies are costing too much to maintain. One click of the computer key from D. C. can tell the doctor/hospital to terminate their ObamaCare...no need for a “death panel” to discuss the cases. Hitler would admire the efficiency of this plan.
To: La Lydia
The Obama administration unveiled $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health records systems on Thursday, the first wave of funding under a health-care reform plan to create vast records-sharing networks aimed at cutting costs and improving care in the coming decade. Just what I want. A fedgov that seeks to set up a Death Panel having access to everyone's medical records to help make life-and-death decisions all that more efficient.
BTW, recall that Newt Gingrich stood with Hillary a few years back for federal funding of a similar proposal.
But hopefully, this will be just as effective of a systems rollout as the IRS modernization was...
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08/21/2009 7:01:23 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: La Lydia
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08/21/2009 7:03:33 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: La Lydia
The first steps toward the Internal Passport?
Of course to work will be done by C.O.0.
Contributors Of 0bama
It will take years and years for 0bama to pay off the massive debt required to buy the white house with money from both domestic and foreign contributors.
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08/21/2009 7:09:43 AM PDT
by
TYVets
(LetÂ’s Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but the rest of us do)
To: La Lydia
How much of this money will go to offshore technology companies? How many of the 70 technology centers will be in Hydrabad?
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08/21/2009 7:10:38 AM PDT
by
thepatriot1
(...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
To: dirtboy
Actually, this function to make the “death panels” more efficient.
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08/21/2009 7:12:16 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: kittymyrib
The department that will do this has already been created and funded in the stimulus bill.
To: La Lydia
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Does anyone see a potential problem with so-called government security on a massive database that cover all residents in the US, even those who are not legal residents?
Seems like a perfect data mining operation for either crooks or for Washington gangsters.
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08/21/2009 7:17:13 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: texas booster
In order the seize control of the country and impose something like martial law, they need to know where we all are and whether we are in any condition to fight back.
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08/21/2009 7:19:09 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: La Lydia
...about half the grant money would help establish 70 technology-extension centers that will assist hospitals and other medical providers in choosing and utilizing the equipment. What?? Suddenly hospitals don't have purchasing departments and quality IT departments?
Sounds like an "approved list" of vendors will be chosen, and all purchases will be quoted through those vendors.
Pathetic, and should be in violation of multiple bid laws.
Not to mention that it doesn't take $600 million of public funds to open 70 "centers". Probably modeled after SBA centers, which only dole out $$ to favored parties.
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08/21/2009 7:28:40 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: La Lydia
Looks like they are all for overturning Roe! That case was all about the “right to privacy” between a patient and their doctor. Now they want to cancel that “right” and create a government data base.
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08/21/2009 7:43:09 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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