Lol!

The private practices are pushing the computer from exam room to exam room. The bigger teaching hospital has terminals installed in each room.

My records are so very erroneous. Worse than ever. They state I am taking meds I have never taken. It also looks like a computer program takes over to complete reports where a doctor has not finished commenting upon a part of an exam, because it was never done. The reports go on and on..."the patient denies a, b, c, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y and z." None of these were ever discussed and if they were, these reports would be the opposite of what is reported. It's shocking.

I had called my doctor's office to see why I had received a copy of a specific and a very erroneous office visit note, when I don't usually receive them in this manner. The answer? Oh, we have to show an annual physical and we had to do a few things to make your last visit fit the criteria for an annual physical. If you have concerns about misinformation in the note, bring it to the doctor's attention at your next visit, six months from now. What about the erroneous info being read by all the various specialists in the meantime?(The appointment was an ER follow-up chat. No physical, at all.)

These computer systems/programs are used, sometimes, to be sure everything is meeting a regulation or a requirement, when it's a misrepresentation of what did and did not occur in the appointment.

It's disappointing, to say the least.

One of my doctors had left the room for a moment, although the computer screen was on, not closed. He ran back into the room and shut down the screen, telling me that HIPPA law says the screen cannot be left open, even in my own record, unless I give written permission to see my own record.

I am shocked with how many people can now view my record at the hospital. It's odd. The former paper record could have never been seen by so many.

I have on private doctor who keeps a paper record in addition to the electronic record, as he does not trust the electronic records system. He is concerned all records will one day disappear.

Party On!

DejaVu