Not only is there a need for healthcare professionals, but the patients and members of Congress too. I have had so many posts on this blog on this 
exact topic. There’s a lot of great software systems and hardware out there, but let’s get down to the bottom line. Personal Health Record pilots fail, why? Nobody has a clue. I just posted about healthcare reform and how Michael Moore say we are driving him crazy, why? Again, it comes down to lack of education. Why can’t we stamp out “Magpie Healthcare” and begin to generate real participation. Half those folks on the web who write about PHRs don’t even have one, but they consider themselves experts, so what is up with that?
Michael Moore Says We Are Driving Him Crazy – By Doing Nothing
Please, explain medical records to Congress for a start and that would help out a lot.
Would someone explain data aggregation and “high frequency ...
American Idol is on TV tonight, forget learning or perking any area of curiosity with healthcare!
Is Distraction Getting in the Way of HealthCare ...
I have way too many times referenced the hospital CEO that runs for the hills when I show up with a Tablet PC as an example, “its for those guys over there” once again.
Watch this video done by the Senate themselves, case closed here on this one, none in January even knew what a PHR was, scary that these folks are in charge of the money for healthcare and show little or no participation themselves.
Investing in Health IT: US Senate Testimonies
Where are the phr mentors – education required as the arizona ...
WE HAVE NO MENTORS AND HEAR FROM NOBODY IN GOVERNMENT OR OTHER MAJOR INDUSTRIES ON THIS TOPIC, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF MAGPIES OUT THERE.
Why doesn't anyone in congress or at the AMA talk about their ...
Do You Know What Your Doctor Is Talking About – Read up and help stamp out “Magpie Healthcare”
We have both computer and health literacy problems in the country and they both work hand in hand, if you don’t have access or know how to use a computer, where are you going to find the information you need? Personal Health Records are a good example case here, as I try to put all the updated information I can find on the site, but does anyone read it, I hope so. If you use a PHR, you will get involved in your healthcare, plain and simple. I use one and somewhat did a bit of a campaign here asking those who don’t use one to quit talking about it to hear yourself speak, get one and then be the expert, otherwise we are back to “magpie healthcare”, which means individuals with no experience talking to hear themselves talk and tell everyone what they should do, not do as I do, but rather do as I say, which is garbage. BD
David Blumenthal, M.D., the federal government’s national coordinator for health information technology, says his office will announce “within weeks or months” what he calls a “workforce training initiative” to educate more health information management professionals with expertise in electronic health records and related technologies.
“We know there are at least 50,000 new jobs that are needed in this field,” Blumenthal said Oct. 6 at the American Health Information Management Association convention in Grapevine, Texas. Health information professionals, he added, will prove essential to the task of making sure hospitals, physician groups and others become meaningful users of EHRs.
I so hear you on this one! Once you use a personal health record and get used to how it works, it's not "scary" or whatever keeps individuals from giving it a try. Yes, it takes some time to upload information (and I have to say, no I do not know every single detail/batch/lab for each of my kids' innoculations, but that's how it goes), but it's still better than nothing at all. And I'm not wading through paper. It's shameful that people who are making decisions aren't doing their due diligence at a minimum. And if this fear-based rhetoric doesn't raise your blood pressure, go over to the H1N1 forums. There's some real sci-fi scenarios playing out.
ReplyDeleteThank your for your comment Lori and there's a lot of Sci-Fi around here too!
ReplyDeleteYou are very smart in using a PHR, as you stated hours to to this manually and not be as accurate.