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re: medical record sharing I don't think it is that ridiculous really. Assuming that the policy to require a signature from the patient stands, fax seems like
by colonelxc 15y ago
re: medical record sharing
I don't think it is that ridiculous really. Assuming that the policy to require a signature from the patient stands, fax seems like a pretty natural choice for sending a paper form. Alternatively, they could take the time to scan the form then email it.
Ideally, both you and I would probably prefer something completely digital (both forms and health records). Towards that goal, I think the biggest problem would be interoperability. Someone like Kaiser could (and maybe they do) use all digital things between themselves, because they can enforce a uniform software platform.
One nice thing that I've seen about some digital medical record systems is that they print out nice reports. That is a good fallback system, so that you can still fax or email simple documents around.
- moioci 15y agoNote that in the US, protected health information (PHI) may not legally be transmitted across the internet unencrypted, according to HIPAA, which renders emailing records much more cumbersome than simply faxing them, which is cheap and ubiquitous.
- Kadrith 15y agoKaiser uses Epic, so they have a system called Intraconnect; now Care Everywhere to share information. This also works between other Epic customers with Care Everywhere installed. For the non-Epic customers there is something called Care Elsewhere. But there are a LOT of smaller practices without an EMR or that don't want to go through the work of initial integration.