Posted on 10/23/2015 5:23:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Technology is NEVER a substitute for good management (decision making)
It’s all about government control and decidin
g who lives and who dies.
It’s why my doctor had to leave his clinic for a health care conglomerate, and then retire, leaving me with a registered nurse for treatment.
Not to mention I receive a notice from a group thathat my medical records along with thousands of others were potentially hacked. I get free credit monitoring for two years. Nice
Everyone has a useless Patient Portal at every physician’s site now that no one checks into. The cost of running these Obama ideas is millions, which is added to the cost of health care, again proving he knows absolutely nothing about how business works. What an ignorant bunch of voters we have in this country, who thought a community organizer/Big Government parasite would be able to bring about Utopia for the masses!
My doctor spends more time looking at the computer than he spends looking at me.
I recently took a job with a rural clinic. Medical records exchange is essentially faxes. There isn’t any credible industry data interchange standard to transfer records and, if there was, it would have been made obsolete by the recent move to icd10.
Best part is we don’t have the staff or time to do anything to those faxes besides import them into the ehr as pdfs. The details seldom if ever make it into the patient record. So instead of practicing medicine, the provider’s are scanning through multi-hundred page pdfs looking for info.
Don’t worry, the Obama Administration will start working on a new systems in 2017.
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Same here! I noticed it the last couple of times I’ve been to see my doctor. The visit feels less personable now.
I go with an elderly relative to her doctors appointments plus I have elderly folks who see a lot of docs. Of all the doctors they see, only one has figured out a system that keeps him freed up to talk to & examine his patients without being totally preoccupied with the laptop/records update/input. This doctor has TWO extra people who help him out ... one before he comes in and one who comes in with him, laptop on wheels & she listens & does all the input. His office is also the most efficient office I’ve ever been in .... he is married to the office manager & she is excellent.
From all I’ve seen/experienced, it’s to the point where I think as destructive as Obamacare has been on so many levels, those who wrote it and voted for this horror should be charged criminally .... fraud & abuse would be good for starters.
Anytime I go to the doctor I always ask him and his receptionist if they like the new obamacare crap. Every single time I am met with a steely look and an answer of “No!”
Close personal friend doc says his productivity has been reduced by at least 30% with the new EMR.
I was in the EMR business in ‘96/’97 as a exec with a subsidiary of Eli Lilly - the whole idea then was to improve doc efficiency.
The whole problem with the development of EMR was one thing: the systems were NOT developed by physicians, but by computer types who have no idea how a doc thinks and works.
Now the systems are killing docs, and the different systems can’t even communicate with each other - a nightmare.
Yes...the patient portals I have refused to join...
Naturally
When you access those portals, your test aren’t there, they push junk like a dietitian’s services. Saw one of those yesterday, she actually told me I was NOT eating enough grains/carbs. Which I know I eat to much of wrong type of carb to keep weight and cholesterol down, as it is a easy digest food where high fiber fruits are not easy to digest.
Pushing that old food pyramid that makes you gain weight.
I prefer the Paleo diet.
Only thing I can give her high marks for is she knew what Gastroparesis was and that digestion is an issue. But the recommendation of eating more smaller meals sucks, doesn’t work, I’ve had this crap 4 yrs so I already know what can and can’t be eaten and how often to eat which is 2 times a day with 1 very small snack, since it takes me 4 hrs to digest what I eat, and if you keep the gut full you cause PAIN. She suggested a sub dairy product that is Soy based. DUH...soy is NOT allowed for Hypothyroid patients.
Her salary is probably decent, since this is a Hematologist Dr, they deal with blood issues, diabetes and cancer. So she probably earns it. Nothing to deal with the crazy blood cells in the bone marrow, which got me sent there. At least it’s not Leukemia, but they sure don’t know what it is yet.
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