Physicians seek to take advantage of $17.2 billion in stimulus money while switching to digital record-keeping.<\/p>\n
Peter Naismith called his physician in his Akron office thirty-seven times during a five-day span to retrieve his medical records. “I needed them to get an MRI,” the 53-year-old Naismith asserts. “The receptionist kept putting me off because my doctor still has paper files,” he says, “It’s my contention that they couldn’t find them. I suspect that my records were lost somewhere in their office.” Naismith works as a police officer and is familiar with electronic record-keeping. “All of our criminal files are computerized and easy to find. Why couldn’t they have done that with my medical records? I told my doctor to get rid of the paper files and he just tried to laugh it off. I wasn’t in the mood for laughing as I might have a tumor, and without my records, the hospital (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Physicians seek to take advantage of $17.2 billion in stimulus money while switching to digital record-keeping. Peter Naismith called his physician in his Akron office thirty-seven times during a five-day span to retrieve his medical records. “I needed them to…<\/span><\/p>\n