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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital hopes to offer all of its patients access to their personal health records online. The NY Times reports the hospital, which has been working with Microsoft for a year, is starting the rollout with heart surgery patients. On the myNYP.org website, you'll see cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, familiar to many from his appearances on Oprah Winfrey's show—he tells the Times that many of his patients are referrals outside the hospital, "When they arrive, Dr. Oz said, they typically come in with incomplete paper records and patchy recollections of past care. When they leave the hospital, he added, they get paper records of their care and a check-list of reminders." Which Dr. Oz thinks is "dangerous and cumbersome" because many mistakes could be made, whereas an online record "can be accessed by the patient and, with permission, relatives and a patient’s personal physician" and easier for patients to keep up with their care. The federal stimulus bill has $19 billion set aside for creating electronic medical records; Tampa Bay is working on digitizing all prescriptions and records in a 10-county area.
Dr. Oz Hearts Digital Medical Records
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It's a darn good thing sensitive information put onto the Internet is never ever accessed by anyone who doesn't have permission to access it, or this would be an incredibly stupid and dangerous thing for the hospital to do.
can't they give it to you on a thumbdrive? I know, me and my thumbdrives. getting copies of notes and reports from my md is like pulling teeth. I begged a clerk to make copies of them for me even though that's against the rules.
In theory, it's a great system. But, who is going to pay for it? Keep it secure? Set the standards? Regulate and punish the unethical participants? The one consistent answer in the industry has been the same: NOT ME.
A little discussed provision of the stimulus bill sets aside $1 billion to create an "National Coordinator of Health Information Technology" whose job it will be to develop standards for electronic record keeping.
Bad idea. All it takes is one clever hacker, and the whole world will know about my tapeworm.
Or my crabs.
so much sensitive info is already being used on the web: e-file your taxes, pay your credit card or student loans, not to mention online shopping. "all it takes is one clever hacker" but that doesn't stop the daily use of this convenient technology.
who knows, maybe with better information technology those doctors could clear up that pesky tapeworm of yours.