Oh, no! I hope you’re recovering well. What team are you on?

I think that’s a great idea for the coasts, but sometimes I doubt the adoptability in middle America. When I was getting my driver’s license renewed, I remember hearing about a place in Texas that still did everything by hand, which comes in handy when trying to get a real, fake ID. (The chances of them double checking is slim to none, not that I’m condoning fraud.) But it doesn’t speak well for new technology adoption.

Even with some doubts, I agree that we need to make a move towards bettering our current medial information infrastructure. Not just charts, billing, etc. (a.k.a. text) but also multimedia like x-rays, ultrasounds, etc.

Thanks for commenting and sharing your stories. Feel better!

Friday during a team game I broke my hand and foot during a dive and needed the ER and surgery. The treatment inside the Stanford hospital network was top notch.

Following Monday, my ER x-rays were accessible to the Stanford hand specialist at 900 Welsh Drive and he operated at Stanford on Thursday installing 4 pins in my hand.

The foot specialist on 1000 Welsh Drive (building kitty corner opposite) the hand specialist (at 900) is not in the Stanford network. So the ER X-rays and doctors reports was not available on computer. So they had to start from scratch.

With lack of information to coordinate between my doctors my foot is still not pinned. Consequently it’s going to take about 12 not 6 weeks to get me out of expensive care.

Separately 5 years ago again at Stanford; a friends wife (only 32) had a stroke while giving birth. She could not talk correctly and had to be moved from Lucille Packard to Intensive Care. My buddy called me to bring some stuff from their home. He needed to stay with her to explain to the ICU doctors, his wife moved quickly, but here records were on the mail cart and took 6 hours to turn up.

At Stanford Hospital you can walk between buildings and move patients but the medical records do not move between.

I would like to see either candidate sign up to provide secure infrastructure for medical records and patient billing. Because treatment is great, but information flow and duplication of records must be costing us huge.

Please Mr. Next President fix the healthcare IT problem: That is all.

BTW, thanks for the add, Allen.

David

Allen Taylor