Hospitals own the notes. I know. Weird. No lawyer needed- just have to follow hospital procedure (varies) to access them. Don't forget you need a translator for abbreviations and medical jargon. MH setting? Is the real problem breakdown of trust / therapeutic relationship?
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Replying to @neoozwrangler @AdrienneCullen and
Actually, it's a bit more complex than that. The physical files are technically the property of the SOS for health, but the data they contain is the property of the patient. What info gets withheld when copies are requested can often be done for spurious reasons ime.
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Replying to @C7RKY @neoozwrangler and
Teaching Med Students today about our Electronic Discharge Summary - first The Process is difficult to use, cumbersome, easy to get wrong, hard to get right and does not integrate in any way with any other computer or paper system to do with care of our inpatients
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Replying to @doctorcaldwell @C7RKY and
Second, once the discharge meds are typed into the summary in Pharmacy they print out the Summary and retype by hand the same list into the Pharmacy software - You couldn’t make it up
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I think I've already used the head-in-hands gif elsewhere, otherwise I'd be wheeling it out again now. With the possible exception of nuclear, few industries can claim to have a greater need for safe/efficient systems to protect life & limb than healthcare. That just tempts error
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