I challenge any Member to say exactly how many Databases they are on. What is a Database ? Try Google for a start?
You are living in Dreamland if you think that you are not on some form of a Database if you access the Internet in any form (Including Email).
eHealth at the very least is an attempt to universally make available your Medical history, which is SO SO important if you are travelling and seek help in an Emergency.
Please think outside of the Square and support and promote this Initiative.
How about a little positive thinking? and perhaps a bit of research. It will do wonders to your attitude.
Personally if some one wants to have a look to see that I have had a radical prostectomy or have to have a colonoscopy every couple of years then they are hard up for something to read.
More interested in a doctor in a strange town being able to access what medications I am on and my medical history so they can make the right decisions to help keep me on the road.
I believe a big problem at the moment is the Doctors don't have a billing code to charge out time for all the data entry required.
My medical history and my medication (provided by GP) is printed on an A4 sheet of paper and kept in my wallet, available to anyone. Equally, I use Hema paper maps and the paper edition of Camps Australia wide. Simple. Foolproof.
Cheers, Tony
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Agree.
Just get into a serious situation, and doctors, nurses and paramedics doing the resuscitation do not have time to go through your pockets, handbag, car, van, smart phone etc. First thing that happens is the resus, and emergency care, and known patient details are logged into a computer... maybe by some one not even on scene.. might be a radio officer, or health service clerk back at base.
Now, if it was me, I would love an alert to pop up informing them of my current health conditions, medication, recent pathology etc.
If you think an alert bracelet or dog-tag will suffice, you haven't been to enough serious accidents.
Even in less serious situations, besides knowing you are (for example) a diabetic, e-medicine records will tell them your last pathology results, medications, cardiac status etc. any where in Australia.
I think its a great idea, but I understand anyone with paranoid tendencies would find it a threat.
Personally if some one wants to have a look to see that I have had a radical prostectomy or have to have a colonoscopy every couple of years then they are hard up for something to read. More interested in a doctor in a strange town being able to access what medications I am on and my medical history so they can make the right decisions to help keep me on the road. I believe a big problem at the moment is the Doctors don't have a billing code to charge out time for all the data entry required.
Personally I'm with you colnden, my health issues are surely rather boring reading to a hacker, but it would be a big help if I need a doctor when travelling if he/she could check my medical history so they can get the treatment right. Having said that, my regular GP doesn't even own a computer, and as I'm currently considering the possibility of travelling interstate for treatment, I intend to ask the GP and specialist I've been seeing for copies of their records to take with me. Hopefully the doctors at the hospital I'm considering will actually read any records I bring with me, unlike those at the local hospital I attended yesterday. I attended the emergency dept for pain relief, and had to ask a couple of times that they read the specialist report I had brought with me before they finally condescended to do so. Doesn't inspire confidence, especially when their off-the-cuff diagnosis was at odds with the specialist and the MRI.
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Cheers, Marianna.
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we registered with ehealth before we left in April to do the big lap, and also to be on the safe side we both got our docters to write letters with our info on them.We had three trips to docters and hospitals in W.A nobody had Ehealth on their systems, do not rely on ehealth a letter from your doc is a better way to go
