01-14-2013, 08:18 AM
Grateful11 wrote:
Around here the majority of medical facilities seem to be using software called Epic.
I went to the Dr. last week and they gave a sheet on how to register and go online
to get my test results. They yet to be posted but I received a letter Friday of my results.
It appears to me that this contradicts the whole basis of setting up a system where
they're still sending out a paper trail and not posting it ASAP online. My sister works
at Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem, NC and they are now owned by Novant and
they have also switched to the Epic software.
One of the facilities I work at is switching to Epic in February. Buzzword "going paperless."
Another tried to go paperless about 2 years ago, but there was a whole slew of things that hadn't considered, so it seems to be stuck in a limbo of paper and electronic records mixed together with sort of random areas of overlap. I have a feeling the system that's switching in February may end up in this same limbo, but it's been aquired by a larger system that's presumably been through this already, so we'll see.
As to the test results mentioned above-- I don't know what kind of test we're talking about, but I can't see how being able to access your own results can be a good thing before your physician or specialist can review them with you. In the orthopedic world it's almost rare for the orthopod to agree with the radiologist's interpretation unless we're talking about an obvious fracture.