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HealthVault currently is patient-centric and does NOT have a way for physicians to easily and directly enter health information about their patients who have subscribed to HealthVault. Is that beneficial for patients' health care?
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1.11/14/2007 5:00:00 PMNot sure
2.11/14/2007 5:19:00 PMdont know
3.11/14/2007 7:48:00 PMit must not be to the MD to enter data. That would represent an increase in the charge of work. It is good to involve patients to do this.
4.11/14/2007 8:49:00 PMIt is OK but there should be an EHR primarily related to the Patient re: input and access, and an EMR which is primarily the medical record with designated &quot;space&quot; for the Patient to enter &quot;corrections' or other clarifying info that is clarly distinct from the professional input.
5.11/15/2007 4:29:00 PMWith HIPAA requirments, I would not directly enter my patients data into healthvault.
6.11/15/2007 11:45:00 PMneither
7.11/16/2007 4:18:00 AMno experience
8.11/19/2007 2:36:00 PMmight leaD to significant gaps in a patient's record
9.11/20/2007 3:14:00 PMnot sure
10.11/20/2007 8:39:00 PMPatients may misinterpret results, conditions etc without the advise fo a supervising physician
11.11/22/2007 5:48:00 PMThe patient should be able to grant their *care provider* (many are not physicians) permission to enter data.
12.11/22/2007 6:03:00 PMKnow way to ensure that what the patient enters is accurate
13.11/22/2007 6:50:00 PMwould be better if physicians could add information
14.11/22/2007 6:59:00 PMIdeally it should allow both options but given the uncompensated demands that this may place on providers,
15.11/22/2007 7:15:00 PMIt would be preferable for physicians to have a secure way to enter data, but this is a great first step.
16.11/22/2007 7:44:00 PMMaybe it is possible that patients will not have access to all their information and gaps may be present
17.11/22/2007 8:12:00 PMmaybe--the patient is the keeper of the record the physician would just be able to use the info--that might be ok
18.11/22/2007 8:40:00 PMNeutral. The intermediate step of the patient having to access, print, provide paper to a provider allows apperance of patient control, but at the price of potential unavailability to the people who really need to know: ER, new physicians.
19.11/22/2007 9:19:00 PMis what beneficial? to not have a way for physicians to enter health information? or that they should? poorly worded question
20.11/22/2007 10:01:00 PMthe patient has limited medical knowledge and accessing the MR would creat a lot of problems
21.11/22/2007 11:09:00 PMpatients are not objective enough to be entrusted with entering all the information on their own. there may be important things that need to be communicated to other healthcare professionals which patients may leave out deliberatly or unintentionally.
22.11/23/2007 12:24:00 AMDon't know maybe not.
23.11/23/2007 12:41:00 AMinformation might not be useful or accurate if entered by patients themselves
24.11/23/2007 12:49:00 AMThis may lead to problems with accuracy.
25.11/23/2007 1:20:00 AMno it is detrimental
26.11/23/2007 6:32:00 AMnot sure
27.11/23/2007 12:33:00 PMMAy be, but not sure yet
28.11/23/2007 1:30:00 PMyou may lose information
29.11/23/2007 2:04:00 PMdon't know
30.11/23/2007 2:11:00 PMAs a recepient of a pt's HV info I wouldn't want to read a personal diatribe of health problems unless it was complmented by clinical summaries.
31.11/23/2007 2:20:00 PMIt would be more benficial if the doctor could enter info directly
32.11/23/2007 2:24:00 PMWhile it would help a Physician be familiar with the patient's issues before the first visit, it would be dependent on the patient's to keep this updated for it to eventually translate into &quot;benefit&quot; for the patient.
33.11/23/2007 3:57:00 PMUltimately, if it is going to be maximally successful, physician entry of information should also be possible.
34.11/23/2007 5:01:00 PMPossibly, but need more information on security and how information could be used
35.11/23/2007 6:00:00 PMyes
36.11/23/2007 7:24:00 PMEventually it may be helpful to have the physicians have access to it
37.11/23/2007 7:30:00 PMIt might be. Too early to tell.
38.11/23/2007 8:56:00 PMI don't know
39.11/23/2007 10:37:00 PMIt would be beneficial but better if physicians were to enter the information directly
40.11/23/2007 10:59:00 PMI have not seen the system
41.11/24/2007 12:39:00 AMYes, if the data is accurate; and assuming the physician's motivation is beneficial.Same caveats as with written records.
42.11/24/2007 12:48:00 PMIf the patient doesn't mind paying the physician to copy their notes.
43.11/24/2007 3:03:00 PMNot sure - don't want to create 2 medical records
44.11/24/2007 5:51:00 PMI think that eventually some access would be helpful
45.11/24/2007 7:12:00 PMI do not know yet
46.11/25/2007 1:37:00 AMPatient's can hide info by not submitting
47.11/25/2007 1:55:00 AMIt would make it simpler to access records from specialists
48.11/25/2007 6:54:00 PM?
49.11/25/2007 8:16:00 PMIt would be best for a patient's physician to have access also, to add information
50.11/26/2007 1:14:00 AMWould want interface to my EMR
51.11/26/2007 3:35:00 AMonly if pt desires so
52.11/26/2007 12:25:00 PMSome patients have poor understanding of their condition and the information entered by them could be useless. The best information would be copies of official records.
53.11/26/2007 3:09:00 PMimportant information may be missed
54.11/26/2007 11:55:00 PMHelpful, but in a limited way (may not give physicians enough medical information to make complete care decisions).
55.11/27/2007 10:17:00 PMA system that requires MDs to do duplicate entries is doomed to failure.
56.11/28/2007 12:41:00 AMunkown
57.11/28/2007 9:02:00 PMIt would seem helpful to have a way for docs to enter info, but it would need to be tagged as by the doc and not from the patients themselves