Indy, I could answer that what I want is a fully integrated information management system that functions in a proactive paradigm to allow me to realize the full potential of my electronic environment in a meaningful manner; at least, that seems to be the language in use. But, being a simple country internist, what I will settle for is getting records quickly, easily, and seamlessly from my consultants, labs and hospital.
I found a human being to talk to at the eHealth network who was both intelligent and pleasant. It is all still pretty turbid, but I have hopes we are headed the right direction. One of the first things will be "push" notification from the hospital, ER, and x-ray that an interaction has taken place. This will help a lot. In the "olden days", the hospital foolishly thought that if we ordered an x-ray or a patient of ours was cared for by them, that they needed to send us some report about it, and just sent it. Then they went electronic, and told us "well, now you can just log on and get the results yourself." Which is true if 1) we are not averse to two layers of logon/passwords that expire every 15 minutes and a hideous interface; and 2) magically know that such an interaction has taken place. So, we may, at least on his part, be struggling back to where we were 10 years ago. Ah, progress.
Last edited by dgrauman; 07/06/2011 7:18 PM.
