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Using the high visibility of his State of the Union address, Bush said he will ask Congress to enact sweeping health care reforms, including "improved information technology to prevent medical error and needless costs."
Also in his speech, Bush asked Congress to approve politically controversial legislation such as tax code simplification and Social Security reform, and he vowed his budget for the 2006 fiscal year will include funding for "leading-edge technology," including clean coal, ethanol and hydrogen-fueled cars.
Wednesday night was not the first time that Bush has talked about electronic medical records. The president devoted a speech to it last week in Cleveland, in which he said: "Most industries in America have used information technology to make their businesses more cost-effective, more efficient and more productive, and the truth of the matter is, health care hadn't."
A White House memorandum released at the same time as the Cleveland speech said that Bush will ask Congress for $125 million for demonstration projects and promote "uniform health information standards" to allow a patient's medical information to be shared among health care workers. Computerization is necessary, the memo argued, because information about a patient is often scattered in many different places and unavailable in an emergency.
Creating a web of interlocking databases raises privacy and security concerns. Paper records stored in file cabinets can be kept under lock and key with little danger of a thief making off with hundreds of thousands of records at once, which happened in a pair of recent incidents at UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley. Paper records are also less vulnerable to mass alteration than electronic ones would be if the computer storing them wasn't properly secured.
During Bush's Cleveland appearance, he was joined by Martin Harris, a general internist and the chief information officer for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Harris tried to allay privacy worries.
"We want to know that the record is secure and that it remains confidential," Harris said. "But information technology actually works perfectly to document that. If you left a medical record on paper in a room, how will you know who saw it? You can't know. When it's in electronic form, when anyone logs on to the system, we know. We know who they are, we know where they are, we know what they were looking at."
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I voted Republican because I thought they would live up to their word of smaller government. Instead, it's getting even bigger than ever. Well, that's the last time I'm voting GOP.
I can now go to sleep knowing that "freedom" is an illusion. The terrorist have won, and I am not talking about Islam.
Freedom and democracy are dead.
I have no choice how my records are kept, I have no choice in whether my new car will be tracked or not. I have no choice how they WILL Tax more not less on my road usage.
I have no choice if my clothes are tracked, my spending habits monitored.
Someone wants to put a chip in my baby's head so the school principal can take attendance faster?
Someone wants to chip my money. Chip everything seems to be the mantra.
This is courtesy of all governmental parties, rebublican and democrate alike, there is no escaping it.
I didn't really think It possible, but today I am convinced God was telling the truth. I thought they were all a bunch of nuts those end time prophets, but I believe now. It's the end of the world as we know it...
"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(Rev 13:15-17)"
This may or may not be an rfid, it is possible rfid is just a precursor, but the world is being groomed to compliance, you will have to take this mark and worship this image in order to do anything economical, political or social. We are being Trained, and coerced, we are being painted into corners of NO choice.
Well I say to Heck with it all, I'll die free. Call me a terrorist, kill me for non compliance, but I make my stand today, I am gonna find out Who this God is who could predict these things and I am gonna be on His side. He seems the only one able to make me truly free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
(Joh 8:36)
I voted Republican because I thought they would live up to their word of smaller government. Instead, it's getting even bigger than ever. Well, that's the last time I'm voting GOP.
I can now go to sleep knowing that "freedom" is an illusion. The terrorist have won, and I am not talking about Islam.
Freedom and democracy are dead.
I have no choice how my records are kept, I have no choice in whether my new car will be tracked or not. I have no choice how they WILL Tax more not less on my road usage.
I have no choice if my clothes are tracked, my spending habits monitored.
Someone wants to put a chip in my baby's head so the school principal can take attendance faster?
Someone wants to chip my money. Chip everything seems to be the mantra.
This is courtesy of all governmental parties, rebublican and democrate alike, there is no escaping it.
I didn't really think It possible, but today I am convinced God was telling the truth. I thought they were all a bunch of nuts those end time prophets, but I believe now. It's the end of the world as we know it...
"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(Rev 13:15-17)"
This may or may not be an rfid, it is possible rfid is just a precursor, but the world is being groomed to compliance, you will have to take this mark and worship this image in order to do anything economical, political or social. We are being Trained, and coerced, we are being painted into corners of NO choice.
Well I say to Heck with it all, I'll die free. Call me a terrorist, kill me for non compliance, but I make my stand today, I am gonna find out Who this God is who could predict these things and I am gonna be on His side. He seems the only one able to make me truly free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
(Joh 8:36)
Hospitals should be first primarily for disaster management. Creating a standard for information interchange between hospitals would go a long way toward improving medical reliability.
Patient records should be kept anonymous by ID. When you go from one hospital/practice to another you would temporariliy give them you ID for transfer of records and retain control.
The issue isn't technology - it's lack of standards for storage and transferof information.
Hospitals should be first primarily for disaster management. Creating a standard for information interchange between hospitals would go a long way toward improving medical reliability.
Patient records should be kept anonymous by ID. When you go from one hospital/practice to another you would temporariliy give them you ID for transfer of records and retain control.
The issue isn't technology - it's lack of standards for storage and transferof information.
-Monte Garroutte
-Monte Garroutte