The doctors were not in charge of this project... It was vendor driven.


The vendors license the technology from the patent owner who intended it
to be used by any user who had the need to accumulate large amounts of
data.  Medical records was just one use.  Another is the famous, or
infamous, Green Card (which incidentally is not green).

The patent on this concept is owned by an entrepreneur in Canada.

Graham Kitchen
Corporate Records Manager
Unified Western Grocers
5200 Sheila Street
Commerce, California 90040
Telephone:  (323)264-5200 Extension 4560
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert L. Bailey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:44 AM
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> Subject: Re: Neurosurgeon = Records Manager!
> 
> My read on this is much different,
> In Singapore a person keeps all his medical records on a 
> small plastic card 
> (like a credit card).  This way the patient keeps control of 
> all their 
> records and provides them to the doctor, clinic, etc where he 
> or she chooses 
> to have treatment.  No lost records or delays.  I once saw a 
> demonstration 
> by a doctor and a few computer types, in which he took a card 
> out of his 
> pocket, put it into a reader, and on the screen flashed all 
> his medical 
> history, lab tests, x-rays and a active picture of his heart 
> beating.  Very 
> impressive.  Without the doctors being in charge of this 
> project, it would 
> never have happened. Of course the records manager only plays 
> a part after 
> the patient is dead.  Understand there is also a group of 
> hospitals in 
> Boston that do the same thing for their patients.
> 
> Dr. Robert L. Bailey, CRM 
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