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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeasles and the ACA: how many here are trying to recall if you
and/or your kids had that second measles vaccination? Wouldn't it be nice if we could all look it up on our electronic health record? Just another example of how Obama Care is making things better!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The measles vaccine was released around 1963. So those of us who were born before then and have grandchildren need to find out whether we had measles or were later vaccinated. We don't want to spread it now that it is out there and can be spread. It is extremely contagious.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)because measles, mumps and rubella was ubiquitous.
Of course no one wants to infect one of their grandchildren, but the mind-at-ease setting statement has been that even in people born before the vaccines with no memory or record of measles there is a reasonable presumption of immunity.
Has that changed?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I have to be very careful. She has not been immunized,
area51
(11,920 posts)And how about this?
Think of the unconscious patient brought into the ER. With single-payer, as long as you know the ID of the patient, you can pull up their medical records and give the ER docs a fighting chance to save their patient.
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Some of the Medicare Advantage Plans kinda have it, but if a beneficiary goes to another plan, it's lost.
They are trying to come up with standardized interfaces, but it ain't there yet.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)My chart is also available to me online for all my records. I can add comments if I take my bp say. I can email my doc for tx renewals.
The computer system where I work links into other healthcare systems so the docs here can look up lab results etc. great system.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)When the measles vaccine reached me in the mid-60s, it was supposed to be "one and done". It was only because I was at university in the 80's during a measles outbreak that called that into question that I got a second shot. Had I been out of school, I may not have bothered.
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)Had chicken pox and mumps too. Now all I have to worry about it shingles
Orsino
(37,428 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)An "extra" MMR is not going to cause a problem.
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)and since I plan on shopping at Disneyland in the next two weeks, and being at a Doctor Who convention,
I got a booster last week.
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hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Reduced Paperwork We have also started work to help your doctors begin using Electronic Health Records that help doctors, nurses, and hospitals communicate with each other about your care. Electronic Health Records make it easier for physicians, hospitals, and others to assess your medical status and make sure that care is appropriate. They can help your doctor avoid redundant paperwork and make sure you get only the right tests and medications so you can get healthy sooner. We also issued rules to simplify the mounds of paperwork that doctors, nurses, and other caregivers have to complete in order to get paid for treating you. We estimate that these changes will save our health care system $12 billion over the next 10 years.
http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/blog/2011/10/deliveryreform10172011.html
It would have been impossible 50 years ago, leaving us fumbling for our vaccination records.