I have tums everywhere atm.

Flint, for the last 15 years I have watched the gobberment and large health care companies throw millions into making this work. I have not seen a single one that worked smoothly enough to make me stand back as an end user and say, wow, that really makes my job so much easier. Not one.

Thanks for editing this post. Mine doesn't make much sense now. :( lol

Tough luck, kid!

Well people can just wonder and speculate now. There's a fair bit of that around here anyway. :)

Very interesting take Flint, on the real world implications of something that sounds great on the surface, but is apparently completely impractical to implement.

If this is the case and I believe it is, why are we trying to spend so much money on something that isn't feasible?

Classic, obviously I can't answer for Flint, but IMHO it is a notable and worth while issue to take on. But most people never thought about throwing money at this program until Obama picked it up as a campaign issue. I feel they cherry picked it as something to show the public that they are addressing a health care issue to make them feel good in the spending package all the while the problem of the under and un-insured, among many other things, has not go away. People in health care have been exposed the digital and electronic record keeping for more than 15 years. This is not a new issue. There are huge problems and it centers around the issues that Flint brought up about proprietary information and lack of interoperability. None of those issues are fixed by throwing money at them. All they are doing is making a very small group of people very rich.

Ouch. That one is going to hurt.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/84712

Good thing our hospitals never make mistakes.

It's not about mistakes. It is about throwing millions, or in our case with Obama, billions at a problem hoping the solution just works it self out for digital record keeping in health care.

Ever try to get your medical records?

The system as is, sucks. Not that I'm really big on anything in the StealFromUs package.

Yea, since I work in the hospital it is easier for me than most, but even my family can't get theirs without a blessing from the Pope. Now if you want a copy for a referral appt that is in 2 days they can let you process a request and you can get it in 2 weeks, maybe.

The one good thing is our Radiology Dept went all digital so radiological tests which involve dye can be obtained on a disk and other providers can actually view the test. The turn around to get those copied was 15 min. Radiology has always been on the cutting edge of the digital revolution in health care, 5 or more years ahead of the rest of the herd.

Thing is, trying to FORCE that is like trying to push a string.

And yet, those of us in Radiology say things like: "Witness the very nature of DICOM itself, the most non-standard standard that ever existed."

OOPS! I meant to say medicaid, fixed it.