Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Question about medical records in USA???

If you are busy having a heart attack and have swallowed your tongue EMT's could bring your records up on a computer instantly. The good things out weigh the privacy issues.....charles

I think it is a good idea. I heard it could save 10% on health care costs. I think most industries keep their records on a computer.

do you think this will be a privacy issue?

sue

For me personally Im not sure it would be a good idea..where does OUR privacy come in????

Also many of you/us here have had NOT good appts or Dr. visits saying your pain is all in your head, you are wanting attention ect... how would that affect another Drs. opinion?? I think big time.

My Rhumy who I used for 12 years then dumped him because he said he didnt do disability letters and he wouldnt prescribe anything stronger than hydrocodone so I left and never went back.

Once I started with my Immunologist I decided I wanted my records for the last 12 years when I got them about 90% was correct but I did see a statement from him that said he had recommended Enbrel for me and I rejected the idea which was 100% not true. I was the one who asked him and he kind of poo pood it and was like well there is like a 3% death risk.

If ANYONE here has had anything negative put in their records it would come out then how would you fight for the truth.

Does that go the same for mental health records??? THAT is a WHOLE different issue.

I dont think I would go for it.

Lisa

Mine already are that way. No big deal and sure makes it easy to transfer them between doctors. Security is an issue though

maybe if we were allowed to change any mistakes (and like lisa, i've caught a number of mistakes like she mentioned) and maybe if we were allowed to remove any totally useless inflammatory language, etc.

i'm so glad some of my records haven't been able to follow me around, and regret some that have been hard to shake. anything i want a doctor to have that is of merit, i've got a copy.

i'm sure my idea of them being our records and we should have the right to modify them as we deem appropriate would not fly; i can already hear all the arguements.

but what do you do with bad records. maybe if doctors were not allowed to write impressions. maybe if only the factual information like scans, blood work, not even interpretation of the data, just the data. because opinions like looks healthy, seems stressed, etc, just are totally 100% useless when most of the time these impressions are pure conjecture on their part. and personally i think unprofessional.

sue

Very good point about being able to easily move between Drs. That, and the fact that the new Dr would have a comprhensive history on you, and as mentioned further down in the post, if you were admitted to ER, they would know instantly what drugs you were on.
Think the same system is being proposed here in Aus.

I think that the Government has no business in knowing my medical condition however I believe that everybody should have a medical history on a disk that can be given to a doctor on a visit so he/her can add their findings to the disk.
The disk should always be in the possesion of the patient for future reference.
jarent

Well my hubby had to go to ER this last week.... and guess what they already have a very large file on him at the hospital... It had all the surgeries he has had, that he has had 3 heart attacks, and even all the meds he was on except for one. That was kind of nice that we didn't have to spend all the time getting registered. Then the other day we got some mail from the Cleveland Clinic and there it stated that you can go on line and get your medical records so I checked it out and as of now for me they don't have any records. It stated your doctors have to be willing to enter your records in a file for you in the Clinic's file system called MyChart. I haven't been to the clinic for at least 10 years so all of my old files have not been entered.

The medical & va system is all digitized now... in the military, you carry a card of your medical records wherever you go..

The newest up & coming thing....(this is being worked out in the military & civilian world.. several civilian families have been implanted with this kind of chip)... military can have this chip implanted into their bodies...so when they're out in the field, a medic knows all issues and medical history... it ALSO has a tracking device in it to 'find' them AND it has a component that will disable them if it is determined they are a 'threat'.

the concept is a good thing.. but in the whole context of where this is leading is a bad thing.....