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Obama Heathcare Begins: Military Electronic Records To Be Model For US
Everytime I hear anything about The Pope of Hope (Deacon Blue)healthcare reform, (gag) it always mentions this need of electronic records. He and Hillary both harp on this, as if it's the answer to ever ailment mankind has had, has or will had.He's doing a flanking pattern around the end with this move.... he's moving fast. He means to. But he knows, he's moving faster than even some Demos want. He introducing every concept he "visions" early and fast. Somewhere along the line, he got the message, the folks aren't quiet ready yet for this massive healthcare thingy. So, rather than take this "full" healthcare policy to the Congress, he does this end run, and is starting with the military... ERecords..... as he is now the biggest, bestest, most knowledgable leader we've ever had with anything concerning our military cause "Recounting the hundreds of stories he said he heard from frustrated veterans unable to receive needed treatment, Obama said: "It's time to change all that, it's time to give our veterans a 21st century VA." President Barack Obama on Thursday said the government would create a national electronic medical records system for the military that will serve as a model for broad reform of U.S. healthcare administration. The system, organized by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, would follow military personnel from active duty through retirement, keeping records organized and complete. Obama said the agencies were moving to create a system for military members "that will contain their administrative and medical information from the day they first enlist to the day that they are laid to rest." "Currently, there is no comprehensive system in place that allows for a streamlined transition of health records between DOD and the VA," he said. "That results in extraordinary hardship for an awful lot of veterans, who end up finding their records lost, unable to get their benefits processed in a timely fashion." This from the same man that offered to our Vets, that their "personal" insurance pay for the medical treatment needed while recovering from battlefield injuries. Obama has stressed the use of electronic medical records and e-prescribing which lets doctors send prescriptions directly to pharmacists via computer as part of his plan to transform the U.S. healthcare system and cut costs. During the late 90's this was a concept that was driving big investor money into the development of software to do this. The software is already being used that lets the prescriptions be sent directly to the drugstore. It just hasn't as yet, been implemented. You see the results when you walk into any medical facility, from a doctor's office to hospital. All your records are there. He's talking about a combining of those records, to follow you, like your "permanent record." (Remember that from your school days?) He said the new system would transform veteran care. Yes, and as in those days of the late nineties, lots of ethical questions, lots and lots of accountablility questions because of the system of coding everything to a strict coding method that calls for subjective thinking in some case, and just plain old human error, were all called into question. Still, the software developed.... having some involement in this, couple of times, I'm in a medical facility of some type, doc is attempting to touch his screen, type, whatever, and I ended up helping him enter his input about me, even tho I had never seen the particular software he was using. I only bring this to the Burg, cause all those questions that arose at the beginnings of this ERecord thing still exist.... and even more, this is Obama's drive to cram this socialist healthcare. He's starting with our military. Posted by: Sherry 2009-04-09 |
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