User:Hydenseek/Here

As a new user and proponent of the WorldVistA Electronic Health Record, I will document on this page my personal experience using the software on a test system in my home.

How I became interested:

I suppose I am like the majority of people, I have always been in good health, had medical insurance and had very limited contact with the Health Care System, yet assumed I knew "how it all worked" if I did need to use it.

A recent health issue left me reeling with disbelief with regard to the lack of patient health information being readily available to the very health care providers who needed it. Every visit to a hospital, doctor, or clinic seemed as though I were visiting an island known only to itself. I would fill out the same paperwork over and over: Name, address, wife's name, allergies, past surgeries, and on and on. Most places did not use a computer but relied on a paper record system to keep track of my information. I thought to myself this is the most inefficient system I have ever seen. I mean we live in an age where I can buy a widget at WalMart in Syracuse, fly to Chicago and the WalMart clerk there can tell me what I bought, where I bought it and how much I paid for it in seconds.

This prompted me to begin searching for the reason things were the way they were. I came across Google Health