One of the parts of obamacare was to enable hospitals throughout the country to pull up a person's medical record no matter where they were. Hospitals were given huge chunks of money to implement or upgrade their electronic medical record (EMR) to make this possible. I can't confirm if they are linked up yet.
I don't know anything about this story but if there is such access virtually any hospital employee in the link could alter medical records. They sold this technology as a great thing for patients since their medical records could be accessed at any point of care, but now I see there is a dark side to it.
There's always a nefarious purpose, it seems. I've come to believe that even cash for clunkers had a dual purpose of getting rid of cars that can't be tracked.
That was discussed in the talk radio realm contemporaneously. It also served to put a lot of people who were living in those clunkers into tents and under tarps along the sidewalks of our cities.
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bushka ago
One of the parts of obamacare was to enable hospitals throughout the country to pull up a person's medical record no matter where they were. Hospitals were given huge chunks of money to implement or upgrade their electronic medical record (EMR) to make this possible. I can't confirm if they are linked up yet.
I don't know anything about this story but if there is such access virtually any hospital employee in the link could alter medical records. They sold this technology as a great thing for patients since their medical records could be accessed at any point of care, but now I see there is a dark side to it.
HelloDolly ago
There's always a nefarious purpose, it seems. I've come to believe that even cash for clunkers had a dual purpose of getting rid of cars that can't be tracked.
Cloudrdr ago
That was discussed in the talk radio realm contemporaneously. It also served to put a lot of people who were living in those clunkers into tents and under tarps along the sidewalks of our cities.