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Re: Medical records in the digital age

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On 2014-06-24, polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
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> A subject close to my heart.
>
> We also have issues with:
>
> Accuracy. Records are notoriously inaccurate and that seems to be more 
> of an issue when they are all digital and therefore appear the same. At 
> least tatty old notes scribbled on yellowing paper suggest a degree of 
> out-of-dateness and unreliability. One example of such a mistake, doctor 
> put "hyperchlorhydria" instead of "hypochlorhydria" in someone's 
> records. With context and thought the mistake is fairly obvious, but as 
> a digital record subject to identification by search, that could become 
> a critical mistake.

I've been having a go at someone about undated articles on the web.  As
you say, real paper can suggest some kind of age that a digital document
does not.

> Test results very often do not include reference ranges. As ranges for 
> some tests vary by lab and over time, it is vital that the range in 
> force at the lab is recorded. All too frequently, it is not.
>
> Incompleteness. You might see a doctor who suggests you need more 
> vitamin D but for whatever reason thinks it better for you to buy your 
> own (probably almost always a financial reason somewhere in whichever 
> system you live under). But your self-supplementing is then never 
> recorded. Or notes from a specialist don't reach your main doctor's 
> repository.

Back in my college days a doctor prescribed some medicine for me.
The pharmacist told me that the medicine concerned was a) cheaper than the
standard prescription charge and b) was available without a prescription.
I simply ripped up the prescription and paid the normal price.

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Medical records in the digital age RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-24 16:50 +0000
  Re: Medical records in the digital age polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-06-24 22:04 +0100
    Re: Medical records in the digital age Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-27 13:42 +0200
  Re: Medical records in the digital age Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-27 09:36 -0300
    Re: Medical records in the digital age Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-27 08:03 -0700
      Re: Medical records in the digital age Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-27 13:17 -0300
    Re: Medical records in the digital age Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-06-27 23:22 -0600

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