Medicare and health IT

Ones person’s problem is another opportunity.

Who do you think has been pushing this all along? A number of players but the IT industry has been one of the major ones all along. I have been in Health IT now for several years and in recent years the trade journals have been full of stories accounting the tale of our pushing this agenda, and of the hundreds of billions of dollars to be made. It is seen as the light at the end of the dot-com collapse tunnel.

Why throwing rocks at my own house? Because I get sick too, and like to keep my privacy. The only secure EMR is the one that was created on a solitary computer with no internet access, has not backup, and is then locked up for the night in the locked file cabinet that the old paper records it replaced were stored.

OK, a little hyperbole there, but the point is, they aren’t and can never be truly secured while achieving all the miraculous benefits that they “promise”. Every week there are major healthcare data breaches somewhere in the country that don’t make the general news. Not one record, like when one “walks” from the office, but tens of thousands at a pop.