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Information exchange between provider and patient -- Brown 180 (2): 207 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
"Emerging technologies such as patient-accessible electronic health records should be considered as a means of facilitating the transmission of information not only between providers but also between provider and patient to address gaps in the continuity of care."
This is of course the future, why not adopt it today. I have to get a copy of each test, photocopy it and take it to my specialist. For some reason the incompetent bureaucracy can't seem to make it happen. This is a huge burden when ill and undergoing chemotherapy, not to metion the distrust it establishes about my cancer care decisions. In Sask we're still struggling to get medical files computerized for the medical professionals. It's embarrassing, costly, inefficient and ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteDarlene,
ReplyDeleteI also wish that we could say that Saskatchewan was an isolated example, but very unfortunately, there are many communities in the same situation. Does this make it acceptable, of course not. It is, however, the challenge to bring many to the 21st century which is a disturbingly sad fact.