Posted on 10/18/2013 2:34:55 PM PDT by grundle
Yeah ... you remind me of what a friend discovered.
While you would think, that the computer systems demands upon health care providers, would have them desperate for providers of quality computer care, in fact, the opposite is happening: they are laying off the good technicians.
In fact, the really good technicians who have both the patience and will spend the time, to ponder the technical problems ... are the first to be laid off, to their surprise.
Sounding much like the good nurses being laid off, as the hospital mgt. guess (wrongly) that the hospital can “just muddle thru.”
They don’t care. Your records problems *are not their problems.* They *know* that *their insurer* and *their lawyers* will handle “your loss.”
I was a medical transcriptionist for 26 years. The hospital closed the dept. 3 years ago to have the work done in India via Focus Infomatics aka Nuance/Dictaphone. Between voice recognition and EMR, the profession is on life support. Over 100,000 Americans, mostly women, have seen their wages drop dramatically as they are now competing with workers in 3rd world countries. To top it off, those foreign MTs aren’t bound by the HIPAA laws and the HITEC act that American MTs were, so get ready for an explosion in identity theft.
Heck DRs don’t even want ICD-10. It keeps getting postponed.
Would be interesting to follow the Allscripts political connections.
Same goes for legal documents and filings. If they used Open XML documents make machine parsing and processing much easier than proprietary ones.
United Healthcare dropping many doctors from Medicare Advantage plan
United Healthcare is dropping hundreds of doctors from its Medicare Advantage plans in Southwest Florida, local physician medical societies say.The effective date is Jan. 1 for doctors affected to no longer be part of the network.
... Worse, she said, is that doctors aren’t being told why they are being dropped.
Donahue said she’s trying to put together a list of the doctors and she knows that hospital-employed physicians aren’t affected, while it seems like smaller group practices are being targeted.
I hope your dad is ok and back with his family.
My sister is an RN and the stories she has told us about hospitals are enough to curl your hair. The stories underscore the old (black humor) “joke” - What do you call the person who graduates from medical school with a C average?
Doctor!
Good luck and God bless.
bttt
One of the biggest challenges is he cannot lay flat...ever, so everyone who provides care, from the nurses to the transfer aides needs to be told.
He nearly died a few years ago from a routine colonoscopy because someone came along while he was in recovery and put his bed down flat. He woke up choking, and ended up in ICU with aspiration pneumonia.
OMG!! I’m glad that your dad survived the idiot who laid him flat, but that’s scary. This is exactly a situation in which paper records kept in his chart at the foot of his bed are far more necessary than the razzle dazzle of highly vulnerable digital files.
With a paper record, they can put a note in big, bold letters on the front not to lay him flat. Even a moron would have a hard time missing that note.
Prayers up.
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