Wow, this opened the eyes of the civilian reader in the audience, so to speak... At Angel House in SFL, my Assisted Living home, we do a lot with diet, hydration, supplements, so we request copies of labs. But other than our visiting ALF MD, some residents go to specialists and 1 daughter refuses to get mom traditional Medicare, opting f…
Wow, this opened the eyes of the civilian reader in the audience, so to speak... At Angel House in SFL, my Assisted Living home, we do a lot with diet, hydration, supplements, so we request copies of labs. But other than our visiting ALF MD, some residents go to specialists and 1 daughter refuses to get mom traditional Medicare, opting for the HMO clinic and precluding us getting her mom PT, Memory Training, MH Therapy, OT and more, In her Home... So she declines faster, when I can't get info to get her Free/Covered Help to slow her decline and enhance her QOL...
Now I realize Each provider has their Separate EMR that is Not shared - But I know who sees
(music emoji) Every claim we make, every move we make, they've been watching us... Yeah, Insurance has All that and they See it Everywhere in that self-interested world of institutionalized extortion. OK, so the insurance company knows a Lot more about Our records than We do... Evidently now I need to request from each office (recent cataract surgery w/outpatient facility, the surgeon and the opthalmologist group I previously visited, rejecting the 'factory' approach/system)
I learn every time I read this blog. Sometimes it's something I can use to help our residents. More often it's frustrating a dead end, but it keeps things profitable for what a friend calls the "shitstem", and I PC-reluctantly call the medical machine.
Vince's experience is something that can be very common! Yikes.
Wow, this opened the eyes of the civilian reader in the audience, so to speak... At Angel House in SFL, my Assisted Living home, we do a lot with diet, hydration, supplements, so we request copies of labs. But other than our visiting ALF MD, some residents go to specialists and 1 daughter refuses to get mom traditional Medicare, opting for the HMO clinic and precluding us getting her mom PT, Memory Training, MH Therapy, OT and more, In her Home... So she declines faster, when I can't get info to get her Free/Covered Help to slow her decline and enhance her QOL...
Now I realize Each provider has their Separate EMR that is Not shared - But I know who sees
(music emoji) Every claim we make, every move we make, they've been watching us... Yeah, Insurance has All that and they See it Everywhere in that self-interested world of institutionalized extortion. OK, so the insurance company knows a Lot more about Our records than We do... Evidently now I need to request from each office (recent cataract surgery w/outpatient facility, the surgeon and the opthalmologist group I previously visited, rejecting the 'factory' approach/system)
I learn every time I read this blog. Sometimes it's something I can use to help our residents. More often it's frustrating a dead end, but it keeps things profitable for what a friend calls the "shitstem", and I PC-reluctantly call the medical machine.
Vince's experience is something that can be very common! Yikes.