Posted by BigDog1 on January 28, 2009, 4:14 pm
> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
> >http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87322
> I'm not sure what all the concern is about. Our family doctor has
> recorded all our records on his laptop / office computer setup for at
> least five years. It was quite handy when he was on vacation last year
> and I needed to see a substitute doctor last year.
> Along that line, I recall all sorts of problems / obviously excessive
> costs when my mother had a half dozen doctors some eight years ago in
> her last years with excessive medical problems. They had little idea
> what each was doing and she was surely not in a position to keep them
> all updated.
> Electronic records are the only way to significantly reduce medical
> costs. Hopefully they will reduce record keeping costs about half has
> they have done in most all other industries.
Correct. If electronic records do nothing more than eliminate
unnecessary repetitive tests when a patient changes providers, it will
save millions of dollars a year. And that's just the tip of the
iceberg. To say nothing of the ability to track fraud and abuse in
the system. Long overdue, given the number of years we've been in the
information age.
Of course, there will always be the "big brother is watching" crowd
who will piss and moan; but they're either paranoid or are already
gaming the system and are afraid they'll get caught. Who cares what's
in somebody else's files? I don't!
Posted by JonquilJan on January 29, 2009, 4:38 pm
They can have mine. They paid for most of it anyway
(Medicare/Disability/Age)
JonquilJan
Learn something new every day
As long as you are learning, you are living
When you stop learning, you start dying
Posted by George on January 30, 2009, 1:40 pm
BigDog1 wrote:
>> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
>>> http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId ‡322
>> I'm not sure what all the concern is about. Our family doctor has
>> recorded all our records on his laptop / office computer setup for at
>> least five years. It was quite handy when he was on vacation last year
>> and I needed to see a substitute doctor last year.
>>
>> Along that line, I recall all sorts of problems / obviously excessive
>> costs when my mother had a half dozen doctors some eight years ago in
>> her last years with excessive medical problems. They had little idea
>> what each was doing and she was surely not in a position to keep them
>> all updated.
>>
>> Electronic records are the only way to significantly reduce medical
>> costs. Hopefully they will reduce record keeping costs about half has
>> they have done in most all other industries.
>
> Correct. If electronic records do nothing more than eliminate
> unnecessary repetitive tests when a patient changes providers, it will
> save millions of dollars a year. And that's just the tip of the
> iceberg. To say nothing of the ability to track fraud and abuse in
> the system. Long overdue, given the number of years we've been in the
> information age.
>
> Of course, there will always be the "big brother is watching" crowd
> who will piss and moan; but they're either paranoid or are already
> gaming the system and are afraid they'll get caught. Who cares what's
> in somebody else's files? I don't!
Really? They just couldn't be folks who like the idea of personal
liberty and freedom (its an interesting idea and a core reason upon
which our country was founded) and don't care for the idea of a strong
government anything?
Posted by BigDog1 on January 30, 2009, 5:47 pm
> BigDog1 wrote:
> >> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
> >>>http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87322
> >> I'm not sure what all the concern is about. Our family doctor has
> >> recorded all our records on his laptop / office computer setup for at
> >> least five years. It was quite handy when he was on vacation last year
> >> and I needed to see a substitute doctor last year.
> >> Along that line, I recall all sorts of problems / obviously excessive
> >> costs when my mother had a half dozen doctors some eight years ago in
> >> her last years with excessive medical problems. They had little idea
> >> what each was doing and she was surely not in a position to keep them
> >> all updated.
> >> Electronic records are the only way to significantly reduce medical
> >> costs. Hopefully they will reduce record keeping costs about half has
> >> they have done in most all other industries.
> > Correct. If electronic records do nothing more than eliminate
> > unnecessary repetitive tests when a patient changes providers, it will
> > save millions of dollars a year. And that's just the tip of the
> > iceberg. To say nothing of the ability to track fraud and abuse in
> > the system. Long overdue, given the number of years we've been in the
> > information age.
> > Of course, there will always be the "big brother is watching" crowd
> > who will piss and moan; but they're either paranoid or are already
> > gaming the system and are afraid they'll get caught. Who cares what's
> > in somebody else's files? I don't!
> Really? They just couldn't be folks who like the idea of personal
> liberty and freedom (its an interesting idea and a core reason upon
> which our country was founded) and don't care for the idea of a strong
> government anything?
Or, they could be whacked out paranoid idiots, who will construct a
conspiracy theory for just about any program their government comes up
with.
If think your government can't already find out everything they want
to about you, including your medical history, you're kidding
yourself. The real question is, why would they care? Got something
to hide?
If I'm on the road a thousand miles from home (which I frequently am),
and have some sort of medical crisis or am involved in an accident and
can't cogently communicate with a care provider, I like the idea that
they could quickly access a database that would allow them to give me
proper treatment.
Posted by George on January 31, 2009, 7:54 am
BigDog1 wrote:
>> BigDog1 wrote:
>>>> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
>>>>> http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId ‡322
>>>> I'm not sure what all the concern is about. Our family doctor has
>>>> recorded all our records on his laptop / office computer setup for at
>>>> least five years. It was quite handy when he was on vacation last year
>>>> and I needed to see a substitute doctor last year.
>>>> Along that line, I recall all sorts of problems / obviously excessive
>>>> costs when my mother had a half dozen doctors some eight years ago in
>>>> her last years with excessive medical problems. They had little idea
>>>> what each was doing and she was surely not in a position to keep them
>>>> all updated.
>>>> Electronic records are the only way to significantly reduce medical
>>>> costs. Hopefully they will reduce record keeping costs about half has
>>>> they have done in most all other industries.
>>> Correct. If electronic records do nothing more than eliminate
>>> unnecessary repetitive tests when a patient changes providers, it will
>>> save millions of dollars a year. And that's just the tip of the
>>> iceberg. To say nothing of the ability to track fraud and abuse in
>>> the system. Long overdue, given the number of years we've been in the
>>> information age.
>>> Of course, there will always be the "big brother is watching" crowd
>>> who will piss and moan; but they're either paranoid or are already
>>> gaming the system and are afraid they'll get caught. Who cares what's
>>> in somebody else's files? I don't!
>> Really? They just couldn't be folks who like the idea of personal
>> liberty and freedom (its an interesting idea and a core reason upon
>> which our country was founded) and don't care for the idea of a strong
>> government anything?
>
> Or, they could be whacked out paranoid idiots, who will construct a
> conspiracy theory for just about any program their government comes up
> with.
Your argument would be a lot more effective if it wasn't ad hominem.
Essentially you are saying "If I don't agree with someone's thinking
they must be an idiot..."
>
> If think your government can't already find out everything they want
> to about you, including your medical history, you're kidding
> yourself. The real question is, why would they care? Got something
> to hide?
>
> If I'm on the road a thousand miles from home (which I frequently am),
> and have some sort of medical crisis or am involved in an accident and
> can't cogently communicate with a care provider, I like the idea that
> they could quickly access a database that would allow them to give me
> proper treatment.
Perhaps you would want to look at getting one of those medical ID tags?
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> >http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87322
> I'm not sure what all the concern is about. Our family doctor has
> recorded all our records on his laptop / office computer setup for at
> least five years. It was quite handy when he was on vacation last year
> and I needed to see a substitute doctor last year.
> Along that line, I recall all sorts of problems / obviously excessive
> costs when my mother had a half dozen doctors some eight years ago in
> her last years with excessive medical problems. They had little idea
> what each was doing and she was surely not in a position to keep them
> all updated.
> Electronic records are the only way to significantly reduce medical
> costs. Hopefully they will reduce record keeping costs about half has
> they have done in most all other industries.