Posted on 10/18/2013 2:34:55 PM PDT by grundle
The HITECH Act is a frightening diagnosis for doctors already fearful of the Obamacare unknown. It is a mandate that requires physicians to transition to computerized versions of patients' paper charts by 2015...
Allscripts sold one of their software products, called “MyWay” to 5,000 physicians for the price of $40,000 per user. The product turned out to be defective. Then, instead of trying to fix the product, Allscripts removed it from the market, leaving the doctors to deal with the damages.
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Looks like Allscripts is NoScripts =)
Sounds like a dry run for ObamaCare.
All lawyers are having to do the same and file cases electronically
Real lawyers will keep hard copies of everything
“0-care” - exactly.
I just paid my monthly insurance premium, which has DOUBLED since Obama signed ObamaCare into law.
Bet your deductible doubled as well.
If they had guts or scruples - they would go out on general strike.
I’m not a fan of digital healthcare records. Hackers and scammers have proved countless times that they can get information from supposedly “secure” servers with very little trouble.
The whole ZeroCare idea is little more than a giant disaster in the making.
My Dad was recently hospitalized ..he's a very complex medical case, and my mom must stay there 24/7 to watch over him and question every action.
The very first round of pain meds that they were going to give him was on his allergy reaction list. Wouldn't you think that an electronic record would instantly be able to flag this sort of issue as soon as the order is given?
Currently afraid to even look.
We closed our practice 3 years earlier than anticipated because of pending nobamacare requirements for electronic filing and so forth. We’ve never been happier.
I was explaining how, *all* non-government health care computer systems will be taken over by the government; explaining that to a friend who “doesn’t want to hear anything about ObamaCare!”
The computer security requirements, that the government will insist upon all practices, will cause non-government practices to fold their computer ops into the government’s -— as the government will claim, and demand, that *its* security wall must prevail.
Essentially, now, any document, any scrap of paper, anything that you write down and hand over to *ANYBODY* who is, or who works for, a health care provider ... is henceforth a government document.
All such documents and papers fall under the government’s claim/demand of “need to know,” for the purpose of determining your eligibilities and determining your rights, regarding any kind of cash flow that the government decides, is related to the cost of your care/”care.”
Wouldn’t you think that an electronic record would instantly be able to flag this sort of issue...”
It could, depending on the programming, whether everything had been loaded into the file and on who was responsible for the content of the data. There really needs to be some pretty extensive training, particularly when you want data to be integrated. Older generation docs and nurses are used to looking at a chart and know where to look for information they may need. Erecords are another whole world. Doctors I have spoken with know how to fill in answers to questions on one page but haven’t any understanding of what all happens or should happen to that data, where else it might appear, what it affects or how to update or change it.
Per a friend of mine, although her son did some of the programming for one of the systems, he had no clue about the field of medicine and had to rely on the person who wanted the software designed and hope that they knew what they were talking about. Kind of like looking at the computer rollout of Obamacare except that in a hospital what is in that chart may mean life or Code Blue for an individual.
As a purchaser of Allscripts MyWay($40k is on the low side) I have lost my office manager and my associate directly as a result of this software implementation. By the way, one of the voices bending the President’s regarding implementation turns out to be none other than the CEO of Allscripts.
I first bought an EMR in 1997 because I thought it would help my patients, office and my practice. The current iteration of software and it’s roll out is as if NASA decided their first attempt at blastoff wasn’t to get someone into space but to head directly for the moon
Sure violates the 4th Amendment. Wish someone would sue over that.
Sure violates the 4th Amendment. Wish someone would sue over that.
My mother’s doctor stopped seeing all Medicare patients 1 year ago.
My doctor folded his practice and joined a local hospital.
Ohio State University Hospitals has been expecting all this -— the reversal of the trend toward outlying communities and distant services. Outlying community health care centers will close.
OSU expects people to *swamp* big hospitals, which will be, for the most part, the only health care “systems” remaining.
Like the old days of my grandfather, to see a doctor about anything more than a broken bone or the flu ... you will travel at length, for help.
The Mayo Clinic was set up years ago, to service so many outlying patients who needed *good quality care.*
Yet unlike the Mayo Clinic, the city “big systems” are fat with bureaucratic benchwarmers - ie in-house politicians - and these hospitals are political systems before they are concerned about actual applied health care. They relish the oft-stated “health care” which is meaningless political chatter without substance. You get words, not actual care.
You particularly get a lot of *their* becoming impatient with you, as they realize their power over you and “work your case.”
Only in some cases of emergency, might you chance upon a doctor or surgeon whose skill enables him or her to demand an immediate and very capable staff.
In other words, the country will transform from a few 100 people able to find a good doctor closer to home, to 10,000+ people able to find that good doctor at some distance (if somehow you can arrange it!) ... thanks to the burdens and pressures imposed by ObamaCare upon us all.
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