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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (18313)12/11/2006 6:00:40 PM
From: Lhn5  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 46821
 
First they state this:

<<The five companies in the consortium contributed $1.5 million each to create the system, called Dossia.>>

Then they claim this:

<<"The benefit of this system has to be in the hundreds of billions," said Michael Critelli, chairman and chief executive officer of Pitney Bowes.>>

When you are starting with absurdity like that what is the point of even listening to the rest.

But anyway...I hope they address compatibility issues so that any doctor seeing the patients can get these records, and a tougher question is how labs and xrays done at various far flung locations get their reports in the system and where such data will sit so it is easy to keep track of. And what about the doctors' own documentation of their office visits...will they be in the record and how will they get there? Dictated, transcribed digitally? Scanned?



To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (18313)12/12/2006 4:03:15 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Respond to of 46821
 
[Security: Medical Records]

Medical Identity Theft: Serious Pain
December 8, 2006

Providence Health & Services, a health-care service provider, lost information on 365,000 patients--after 10 backup tapes and disks were stolen from an employee's minivan. Now, 12 months and $7 million later, the company remains mired in the aftermath. Here's why.

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