Monday, May 24, 2010

Social media

Social media starts the patient dialogue with doctors and nurses | KevinMD.com

"Face to face communication remains critical for the doctor/patient relationship."

That becomes problematic when it takes four to six weeks to get an appointment.

Yes, I'm bashing on health care once again. But I only do it because it's so easy. And it shouldn't be.

Of the three doctors and one dentist that I'm involved with at the present time, not one offers electronic communication. Not one offers to make your records available in a digital format. Okay, one will do it for $20 and put it on a CD. A CD? That's twentieth century stuff. And when I get the CD, after a one week wait, it has a PDF file on it. A file that could have been transmitted to me via email in just a few seconds. The doctors complain that the cost of electronic record keeping and sharing is far too high when it's the exact opposite...digital records save time and money.

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