Leslie,
Sorry if I ruffled your feathers there. That is an excellent analogy there, very well put. Really Leslie that has been my one real pet peeve here all along. Any of the others really are just tangents to this one very sore spot of bad sportsmanship. It's just so plainly and obviously wrong.
And I get sick when some of the others here talk about comparing an EMR to a subscription anti-virus programs, as though access to patients charts can be compared to the choice of Norton over Trend Micro, verses Kaspersky or what have you. Our data, our charts, which are the intellectual property of the docs that created those notes and the patient whose chart it is. No less all the legal implications for the doctor who always needs to be able to supply those charts and notes to all sorts of players for years and years past the patient's last visit.
I know that some of you are sort of sick of hearing and reading all this, and there is a simple solution, a positive change in this important document that affects us all. This is all too important to be thrown under the rug, blown off, ignored or anything else besides being dealt with effectively and fairly.
Now I know we got a post a while back from Vinny saying that this is supposed to be addressed in a positive manor sometime soon, but I would ask, since it is such a sore spot, if the solution is there already, then were is it so we can all see it and put this stupid thing to bed once and for all.... Right?
Last edited by hockeyref; 05/30/2008 12:24 AM. Reason: spelling
