Actually, that’s a good question and good reason for the MD in the article to have his credentials removed.
Yes, everything which goes into your medical histories may now be entered into the patient healthcare record, which is intended to be immediately accessible to all healthcare practitioners in the healthcare system.
This includes Hospital admissions, insurance, labs, emergency rooms, doctor’s groups, pharmacies, and the patient. It is intended to be a life-long record, if not possibly longer for statistical evaluation.
Entries into the record include notes by assistants which might include off-the-cuff remarks by the patient, which in the future might reveal a trend in mental degeneration. If a patient repeatedly curses out or threatens the healthcare provider, some might use that as evidence to either deny service or worse as evidence of a mental disorder to justify state action to institutionalize a patient.
The point to be made is this record has in the past raised serious privacy issues. Advocates assert the record is required to be able to properly assess a patient’s condition in an emergency or during some medical procedures.
Such a mechanism would also afford those with ulterior goals to use the system as a library of dossiers on the entire population.
Very insightful and thought provoking post (as usual), Cvengr! If a patient replies, “None of your d*mn business”.. they can note “angry response”. Even if the patient replies, “I refuse to answer” that can show “deceit and refusal” so essentially the answer is “yes”. I am thinking a simple, “no”. No long in depth answer .. just a simple lie. (sort of like my listed weight on my drivers license).
“Yes, everything which goes into your medical histories may now be entered into the patient healthcare record, which is intended to be immediately accessible to all healthcare practitioners in the healthcare system.”
SWMBO saw a photo “attached” (on the computer) to her health-care records during a visit. It was her drivers license photo.
They are tying the databases together. Yeah, there’ll be cross ties to DMV, BATF, FBI, HHS, and on, and on...
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t ALREADY cross-referencing your entire life.