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Your records, by law, have a paper copy in a medical records warehouse. Accessing them on short notice is the problem.
by J3L2404 17y ago
Your records, by law, have a paper copy in a medical records warehouse. Accessing them on short notice is the problem.
- Radix 17y agoAccording to what law? There should be no reason a doctor with a new practice should need to keep paper copies of their charts. Remote backup copies yes, though I don't know the rule here, but not necessarily paper copies.
- J3L2404 17y agoObama's requirement for EMR's is mostly an attempt to save money. Paper records are very expensive, but he can't change the law until the question of reliability is addressed sufficiently, so in the meantime vast warehouses of paper records continue to drain resources. IANAL but I'm sure you can find the law, if you wish to.