There Is A Con Being Perpetrated On The Public Regarding Health Record Access. It Is Not Useful For Most!

This popped up last week:Having Access To Medical Records Is Useless For Most PatientsJune 7, 2019Anne ZiegerI knew up front that it would be ugly. After two years of treatment, a chronically-ill patient like me generates a lot of records, and I had every reason to expect that they would be disorganized and dense.Still, when I sat down to tackle the 600-odd PDF that Kaiser Permanente made available, I was pretty intimidated. Yeah, when I say this I can almost hear you thinking “well, duh!” but your warnings couldn’t prepare me emotionally for the document that I got.In any event, this encounter with my personal data has convinced me that if CMS doesn’t change its strategy, pushing consumer engagement with their online medical record will prove to be a complete was te of time.Actually, getting my records was actually amazingly easy.  I logged into my Kaiser portal and navigated little difficulty to a link I could use to request records for the past two years of treatment. Having... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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