Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA
| reply to LoungeLizard2
Re: Not a good thing at all
said by LoungeLizard2  :
If you're allergic to medication, then you wear a medi-alert bracelet, not post all your medical records on-line. Why should my dentist, or OGBYN know that I went to a psychologist? Also....there are so many mistakes on credit reports, why would I want my medical records to be the same.
Not everyone who's allergic to medication wears a medi-alert bracelet. My wife is allergic to certain commonly used antibiotics. If she were in the ER (unable to communicate her allergies and without an informed family member handy), she might be given the wrong antibiotic and have a bad, life threatening reaction.
As for them being online, we're not talking about a website. Docs won't log into www.allhealthrecordsarehere.com. Instead, they would have a secure interface to a network that will allow them to view and add to your medical record.
For an analogous situation, look at ATMs. They are connected via a network without being online in the World Wide Web sense of the word. You can't simply edit your balance because you can access your bank account anywhere worldwide.
--
-Jason Levine
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/
http://www.PCQandA.com/
http://www.urateit.com/ |
