By the end of the week I think we will be plagued with tv ads from the Rose Law Firm......” Did one of your loved ones die from a medical miscommunication resulting from the use of the electronic records system called Epic? If so you might be entitled to monetary compensation”
If you live long enough to get a trial date.....
I am sure we will, but not quite yet
I’ve seen and used many medical health records. They are all highly flawed systems with huge security gaps, bugs, and horribly maintained and structured databases. EHR’s are a scam. Once it’s online, whoever has access can pull up medical records. They are easier to steal, trade and sell then paper records. They are a massive disaster that will eventually cause millions of private records to be viewed online. It is a joke.
The reason sensitive information should be stored offline is because it is HARDER to steal. Obamacare basically ensures that soon American health records will all be on a database with low end security protocols and connected to private networks which have connections to the internet. All just waiting to be hacked, and misused. The records will be carelessly shared by people with no knowledge of how computer networks work under the guise of “public health” and “better [government run] healthcare”.
Here’s a contract to the lowest bidder with IT staff dumber then a monkey with a rock. That’s exactly what is happening right now. All the IT staff I know just cannot keep up with the emergence of new protocols, security flaws, and tech. There is too much out there. The IT staff at most of my jobs have been incompetent, lazy and arrogant.