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Can electronic medical records help healthcare providers identify patients who visit multiple clinics?
Question : Can electronic medical records help healthcare providers identify patients who visit multiple clinics?
to receive several prescriptions for pain medicine ? Can a medical record be quickly reviewed for possible prescriptive drug interactions?
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Answer by Secular Humanist bids farewell
As a former Kaiser Permanente Member I can tell you the benefits of electronic med. records, but the visit of multiple Clinics, especially if they are not connected, isn’t possible to detect, unless a specialist sends a report to your primary care provider. That’s why, before you see your doctor, a nurse always asks you what meds you are taking.
Multiple clinics and prescriptions spells abuse and could become a life threatening situation for the patient. This is definitely a gray area.
Kirsten, the problem with electronic medical records is that they are going to be open to be viewed by the government. I for one don’t want them in there. Once they get their nose in there it will mean that they know intimate details that should only be known between my doctor and myself. They will also have the ability to control what is being done with me as a patient. This notion that this is a good thing is in reality just another way to control people. Do you want everyone to know what it going on with you or someone in your family? Electronic medical records will afford them that ability though the government will say no to this. The eventual end point of this is total control of the dispensing of medical care! All one has to do is look upon the system that is present now. There is a national reporting system in place now that can look up your records and what treatment and prescriptions you are or have taken. Why is another system needed? This is just not the way to go. First is was Diagnostic Related Groupings and then medical bundling and so forth. Every time we are the ones that lose out.