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The same thing has been happening across the country. This is basically states failing to create a proper portal that can provide a vaccine-provider a list of t
by SamBam 6y ago
The same thing has been happening across the country. This is basically states failing to create a proper portal that can provide a vaccine-provider a list of the next n prioritized people in the city, and then blaming the doctors when they don't have arms to inject.
This is a failure of management from the very top, and people lower down getting the blame.
It is simply insane to me that most (all?) states haven't used the past six months to build proper portals that can do this. This doesn't even need to be some complex medical-records-transfer monstrosity -- allow people to put in their own information (or the information on non-tech-savvy relatives or neighbors), and verify them at the point of injection.
Here in Massachusetts, an extremely tech-savvy state, run by a health insurance exec, there is absolutely no centralized way to register yourself, and no way to put yourself on any kind of list at all, besides calling up individual vaccination sites once you become eligible. And there is no centralized list of what vaccination sites have openings (though a private citizen was able to make one via web scraping).
- ianhawes 6y agoThis. You would think that state's had no advanced knowledge of a vaccine. In Maryland (my state) the state health director published a "white paper" on what steps they were planning on taking to vaccinate. Then a few weeks later he retired.
- galangalalgol 6y agoIs hippa partly at fault? I wonder how much of our healthcare cost is related to hippa. The only time I have had to use a fax in the last decade is to get my medical records to a new doctor.
- SamBam 6y agoI don't see why it ought to be. That's why I was specifying a non-medical-records-transferring site. Already when you book an appointment, I believe, you simply state why you're eligible for the current group and when you get to the injection site they double-check that (to the best of their ability). I don't believe that any states are requiring verification that you are, e.g., a smoker. So you should be able to just input your data, your age, if you are a frontline worker, whatever, and check the box that you have 2+ of the listed medical conditions. When you get to the site, the triage person can check that. This is no more or less security than currently exists, it just centralizes it.
- prepend 6y agoI can submit my data anywhere I want. I can permit it to be shared with anyone I want. Having a registry that I submit info to, get it verified, and shared to doctors is probably easier because of HIPAA. Because at least there’s a common standard that system operators can plan around and there’s at least some protection.