I Wonder How Accurate All That Data In The #myHealthRecord Is And Will Be in Future?

This appeared a few days ago.Check Your Medical Records For Dangerous ErrorsBy Judith Graham November 21, 2018 When Liz Tidyman ’s elderly parents moved across the country to be closer to their children and grandchildren years ago, they carried their medical records with them in a couple of brown cardboard folders tied with string.Two days after their arrival, Tidyman’s father fell, which hadn’t happened before, and we nt to a hospital for an evaluation.In the waiting room, Tidyman opened the folder. “Very soon I saw that there were pages and pages of notes that referred to a different person with the same name — a person whose medical conditions were much more complicated and numerous than my father’s,” s he said.Tidyman pulled out sheets with mistaken information and made a mental note to always check records in the future. “That was a wake-up call,” she said.Older adults have cause to be careful about what’s in their medical records. Although definitive data aren’t available, the... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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