Elvis,
Very good. I always knew you had a good sense of gallows humor. But seriously, I know that privacy of records for both provider and patient has always been of great importance to you, me, Vinny and a great deal of others too. As much as Jon tries to be CCHIT compliant, without the expense of the stupid sticker that we has also discussed previously on other threads; perhaps we should all approach Jon, that this is one feature on this standard that scares us all to death and to not incorporate it? Or at least allow us in the admin section the opportunity to say yes or no to such a dangerous option. I think we need a direct answer on this one from the man himself. But perhaps one of you who have a friendlier and more open relationship, should be the one to approach him on this. It may not be as well receivced coming from me, if you know what I mean?
I think if and when such an feature gets incorporated into a software, that is when we here at our office get off of the EMR bandwagon and start printing out and handwriting our charts again. I guess I better start looking at all those catalogs from those paper files places...Used to just recycle them and pay them no mind, but now.....
This really stinks of big brother all over it. At what point once such a feature is designed will having it enabled be a requirement of PAR'ing and of being HIPAA compliant? Once we bill electronically, will we all have to allow big brother into our offices and onto our systems? It's just amazing how insightful George Orwell really was so many years ago...
Good Night and Good Luck
Paul
