I believe there should be a free-market way for insurance companies to force this to happen.The medical data that might have saved me several hours of terror sat unused. It was unavailable to doctors outside of my primary care clinic, except by mail or fax...
Standards that could have helped solve these problems have been available since 1991. But 17 years later, the industry still doesn't follow them. US health care providers and systems vendors haven't agreed on any unique patient identification codes, universal schemas or global XML data models.
Moreover, they have no real incentives to pursue them. Providers see no direct economic benefit from adopting interoperable electronic health records. For vendors, open standards threaten services revenue and lower barriers to competition.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Medical Records
From ComputerWorld.com
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The most important benefit of obtaining medical records in particular is that this can allow you to receive more appropriate screening if it becomes necessary. There are many different types of screening that we may need as we grow older, and it is essential to know when and if we have ever experienced that screening before. If it is a type of screening that requires regularly scheduled updates, having your medical records on hand can prove to be especially helpful. And nowadays e-health record services are becoming very popular among the people.
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