[molson209]

Red Tape ,The Communist Way ,every Doctor will be issued with his own government approved Rubber Stamp ,LOL

[Resolute Conservative]

Since they are now basically typing up their own orders that frees up the nurses from having to do it as in the past. So why is it you can never find a nurse on a floor when you need one? They used to spend half their shift at their station scribing doctors orders now what are they doing?

[BenLurkin]

Most anything government touches — it screws up.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Put the highest paid guy in the clinic to work clattering at a keyboard. Sounds like a model of efficiency to me. /s

[A CA Guy]

The government is being a good gestapo and wants the doctor spending less time taking care of you and spending more time writing the government about every medical issue they need to know about you.
From there you get lifestyle change demands.
From there you get early self abortion like the movie “Soylent Green”.
Lastly the government might decide to take you and it is just according to them your time to go.

OBAMACARE!

[4yearlurker]

Lots of health care providers are switching from paper to the computer. Paper costs money,takes up a lot of space and you have to have a company pick up old files and shred them. Some doctors are using the computer program "DRAGON." The doctors Medical Assistant picks up the slack and now some offices have scibes who enter the doctors notes into the computer.

[Fido969]

The whole point of the medical electronic records system was to collect data on Americans and have it all in one place.

[grumpygresh]

“emergency-room doctors spend 43 percent of their time entering electronic records information, 28 percent with patients.”

“Medicare payments will be cut, by 1 percent this year, rising to 3 percent (potentially 5 percent) in subsequent years.”

EHRs reduced efficiency making a reduction in pay of up to 5% relatively less than the cost of reduced efficiency especially when you consider the start up costs, maintenance costs and compliance costs of EHRs.

The idea of EHRs is to centralize health care delivery into ever larger institutions and organizations, advance the surveillance state, make treatment conditioned on obeisance of the government direcetive (ie force inoculations as a condition for other treatment), and as a means to punish non-conformers (ie psychiatric diagnoses).

This is the totalitarian state. What is not forbidden must be made compulsory.

[Proud2BeRight]

Building that NSA data base. Obama needs to know if you have an enlarged prostate.

[combat_boots]

I know mine is.

[bert]

When was this written? Ten years ago?

[vette6387]

Ever since our medical group was “bought out by the local hospital” and a new “on-line medical records system” was implemented a year ago, my PCP has become a clerk typist. As bad as it is, seeing him take up at least 50% of an appointment (which is 20 minutes) pounding away on the computer that is now a main feature of all of the exam rooms, the other problem is all the errors that are put in my personal record. I have had to insist that incorrect diagnoses that show up be removed. Seems as though the game plan is to show that you have an ever-growing list of maladies with the end game being “you are too far gone to be worthy of further treatment.” The whole thing is insidious.

[zerosix]

My doc "retired" for this very reason!

During one of my last visits with him, I volunteered to type for him, as I could see he was having a difficult time (using the 'hunt & peck' system). He just sighed and said he needed to do this himself.

I also realized upon leaving, his time with me mostly was consumed by asking me "canned questions" never before asked ("what weapons did I/we have at home, did I feel safe at home, was I subjected to any kind of 'emotional, threatening conditions' at home," etc.) and little time on my reason for the appointment!

I received a letter from him six weeks later informing me that he was '"retiring from his practice" and thanking his "patients who had trusted him for decades with their and their family s health!"

[Cboldt]

The government denies that it is forcing anybody to do anything. The doctors are free to choose another vocation.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The mods locked my post, so here’s another one:

EHR Obamaocare Nanny State PING!

[ConstantSkeptic]

As long as insurance companies are involved and as long as doctors may be sued, documentation will exist.

That said, there are good computer programs and bad computer programs.

My brother is a physician in a city of about 25,000. In his practice he interacts with a local clinic and with a nearby mega clinic. The computer system at the mega clinic was no doubt expensive to buy, but it is a joy to work with. The local computer system? My brother is seriously threatening to quit over having to use it.

[Lorianne]

Some doctors are going to paper records and cash.

[Amagi]

Not only this, but I was just thinking today about all the time I have to waste complying with an endless deluge of government mandated b.s.
Not limited to filling out forms monthly, plus the time and money wasted writing checks to an ever greedy bureaucracy and Big Government at every level.
It is already beyond absurd and only becoming rapidly worse.