Dyspeptic_McPlaster

These people know what they're doing, it's fairly ho-hum for them, and they're not going to let anything bad happen to you.

This is the thing to remember, I had to have a procedure that in comparison is like getting your fingernails clipped (cardiac cath), but I had just had a heart attack and was really feeling spooked. When they wheeled me into the "Shop" because thats' basically what it was they had a radio going with the local classic rock station, I shit you not, Bon Jovi "Dead or Alive" was playing. I weakly tried to flip them some crap, and they laughed, the guy prepping me looked at me and said, "Hey, I know you are nervous, but keep in mind, we do this all the time, for us, it's just Tuesday" Really helped me chill.

I don't think that this is actually a new thing, I think it's the standard state of affairs.

I'm an American with "ok" insurance and Heart disease, I oftentimes don't go into the ER when I am having sypmtpoms simply because I know it costs 1,000$+ to walk in the door.

I'm in IT and one thing I see with Electronic Health Records that really disappoints me is that it looks like we are going back to the past in terms of interoperability between systems. I can't believe the number of times I have heard that someone is going to "print off a health record from one facility, fax it to another facility where it can be scanned and uploaded into the second facilities medical records system. To me it seems like such a waste of money, time and opportunities to learn from all that Data. Do you see the same problems, and if you could change the way EHR systems are developing what would you change?