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More and more people are realizing the danger of offshoring

Posted: Sep 19, 2013

If this gets pushed in my face, I will definitely state that it's NOBODY'S business and simply refuse to answer. Or, maybe ask my own doctor to keep private records of her own, with my real information in it.

If doctors are already fed up with this crap, and stating that your information will not be confidential, that's pretty much telling me what I need to know. Anything that's done overseas is guaranteed not safe, so I'll have to protect myself and my information as best I can by keeping things to myself that are private. Sad that we won't be able to trust our own doctors anymore, have to risk our health care to keep our privacy.

Nope, no sex with anyone will be stated in my records. Or, maybe, push it to the extreme and simply state with any one, any where, any time.

I suppose that won't be taken as sarcastic, but put me into a high-risk category of some sort so I can be denied or treated differently.

This is going to be nothing but trouble when it all gets implemented, that's been clear from the beginning. I hope it goes to he*l in a big handbasket.

Thank goodness I won't be involved in the medical field in any way anymore to have to deal with this crap on the front lines.

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First, this article is fearmongeringgarbage. Second, - STDs CAN cause chronic and fatal heart problems. n

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Any cardiologist who says he never needs to ask people about their sexual activities is either lying or negligent, or both.

I just mention that ONE outrageous lie that jumped out at me, because it should have set off signals to you--IF you are an MT.

First, there have been many cases of identity theft - based overseas SM

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along with credit card fraud. So anything processed overseas is at risk and people who have any smarts at all need to do as much as they can to protect themselves.

Second, see 4th paragraph mentioning Betsy McCaughey, the reporter for New York Post. "As McCaughey reported, cardiologists donâ��t need to know about your sex life."

That part jumped out at me. It wasn't a doctor who made that statement. That should have set off signals to you, if you'd read closely enough.

I'm no longer an MT, and thrilled about it, because I had the brains to turn my life and career toward a better path where the job won't get sold out from under me or force me to work for almost nothing. So at least you got that part right, MT no longer.

There are many more cases right here. Big Crime - AND patient casualness are what IT worries about.

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Lack of access to their EHRs could lead patients - to switch doctors, according to study.

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This is from an e-mailer I get, ModernHealthcare.com.

[Note, OP, that people NEVER have to answer any questions they don't want to from their doctors, and very often don't. Silly stuff. Although MTs see that every day in reports, shouldn't your own life experiences have clued you in?

As for Obamacare, this newly important ability to monitor, insert comments, and request corrections to one's own health record wasn't one anyone had BEFORE Obamacare--but we do now: Because Obamacare requires physicians and hospitals to open our records to us. As this article shows, it's going to be an extremely popular provision.

Third, enjoy checking over your own medical record. If it's typical, you'll find plenty of mistakes to be outraged about. Warning: None of them will have anything to do with offshoring and they will have everything to do with your doctors' sloppiness.]

Patients Willing to Switch Doctors to Access EHRs: Accenture Report

By Brian T. Horowitz | Posted 2013-09-18 Email this article Email Print this article Print

Controlling their own health records is important to patients, and 41 percent say they would be willing to seek a new provider to access them, according to an Accenture report.

A lack of access to their own electronic health records (EHRs) could lead many patients to switch doctors, IT consulting firm Accenture has revealed.
In fact, 41 percent of patients would sign up with a new doctor to be able to access their own EHRs when their current provider doesn't offer this capability, according to the Sept. 16 Accenture report "U.S. Research Findings Consumer Health Survey."

This data shows that "a meaningful number of patients think this is a pretty important thing to make a decision about who their doctor is," Dr. Kaveh Safavi, managing director of Accenture's North America health business, told eWEEK.

In the United States about 36 percent have access to an EHR maintained by their doctor, but more than 57 percent can track their health on their own. Of these respondents, 37 percent can track their health history, 34 percent can monitor their physical activity, and 33 percent can watch health indicators such as blood pressure and weight.
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Providing patients with the ability to collaborate as part of a recordkeeping process allows them to have a better understanding of their conditions and boost their motivation to stay healthy, according to Safavi.
Doctors and patients have strong disagreement on the level of EHR access patients should have, Safavi said.
About 84 percent of consumers believe they should have full access their EHRs, but only 36 percent of physicians agree. A majority of U.S. doctors, or 65 percent, believe patients should have limited access to their EHRs and 63 percent actually do.
"The record has been the property of the doctor," Safavi said. "For a variety of reasons having to do with health care and consumer empowerment, all of these things converge. You are seeing a disconnect."
To keep patients for the long term, doctors will need to provide them with the access to clinical information they're looking for, he said.
Under Stage 2 of the federal government's meaningful-use program, doctors must provide a patient with access to their clinical information, Safavi noted. While Stage 1 is about physician adoption of EHRs, "Stage 2 is more about patient engagement," he said. "Patient engagement includes the ability to see their own informationâ��something the patient can look at."
The meaningful-use mandates are part of a trend toward self-care for patients as the EHR transitions to a shared decision-making tool for patients and doctors, Safavi explained.
For the survey, Accenture interviewed 9,015 adults 18 and over in July from nine countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States. Harris Interactive fielded answers from respondents, and Accenture aggregated the survey data.
Of patients interviewed, 48 percent believe access to EHRs is very important. In addition, 77 percent view booking appointments online as important and 76 percent recognize a need to refill prescriptions electronically.
Currently, 48 percent of patients have the ability to refill prescription requests, 43 percent can request appointments, and 36 percent can email with providers, the report stated.
Meanwhile, physicians are ramping up their own use of EHRs and e-prescribing compared with other countries, a May 9 Accenture report revealed. They increased their "routine" use of health IT for tasks such as e-prescribing and data entry in EHRs by 32 percent, compared with 15 percent of doctors in other countries.

- See more at: http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/patients-willing-to-switch-doctors-to-access-ehrs-accenture-report.html/#sthash.c5ArMBAF.dpuf

wow - for reals

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The article you cite is pure garbage. Have you read the ACA? You might want to. Yes, it's a large document but at least then you'd be dealing with facts and not listing to right-wing fear-mongering.

EVERY doctor does not have to go to EHR. They need to if they are going to accept Medicaid or Medicare. Not every doctor does, so those doctors can still hand-write their records if they want to (and some still do).

If your physician is doing a good job, they are taking a thorough biopsychosocial history in addition to your annual physical examination. The ACA is NOT forcing them to intrude in your sex life (you know, like insisting on vaginal probe ultrasounds, etc that the right wing are so in favor of).

If you want to dislike President Obama, that's certainly your right. But at least educate yourself so you are dealing with facts when looking at the LAW that is now ACA. And yes, it's the LAW (and I sure wish the right wing in Congress would figure it out and quit wasting our tax dollars ad nauseum to negate that fact and putting our country in further economic straights by deluding themselves into thinking they can just ignore the LAW).

Very good. - nm

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