“your ‘file’ is a set of electronic records in a national database”
Not mine kiddo!!!
My medical records are NOT in an electronic format and they are NOT in a “national database”!!!
That’s what Obama wants, but it aint so yet!
Even if they scanned the written files, it’s pretty hard to search on the Doc’s handwriting!!
Do you know of some effort to type all that material in?
I work with hospitals every single day. If you’ve been to a hospital or a doctor your records have most likely been scanned into their medical records database.
They are most likely working on a link between their database and the states Health Information Exchange (HIE) system.
Each state is working to connect that HIE to the IRS.
Its significantly more complicated then this shows but hopefully you’ll get the idea. Eventually written records will be completely replaced with electronic records. For key pieces of information there will be alerts built into the system, weight, smoker, diabetic, and probably gun owner (my guess).
medical records have been getting transcribed for years
unless your doctor is in the country and has no computer access, your records have been entered in some form or another.
whether or not they are in full compliance with 0bamacare is a different issue. all medical records are in various degrees of compliance already
“Even if they scanned the written files, it’s pretty hard to search on the Doc’s handwriting!!
Do you know of some effort to type all that material in?”
The scanners that are available now are very capable.
Our FP who recently retired do to a lot of this stuff had joined a group a few years ago, and he was forced by the group to have his records scanned.
He basically limited it to about 3500 records of active duty patients and stored years of other old records off site.
He and his office staff were stunned at what was able to be scanned. If possible with inactive patients, he somehow got their records to them or their survivors over the decades so they weren’t scanned.
He and his final office sharing md had thousands of records shredded at their cost to prevent what was in those records getting out.
No such luck with the previously scanned medical records as they are/were part of the groups records.