The Medical (Corgi) Coder

1) Have you had a change in doctors or more than one at once? How is sharing beneficial?

While others may protest, I cannot stress how important sharing between doctors is!! We are human beings, not a “GI System” or a “Nervous System”. Just as our body works together, so must our doctors to get the full picture. I still feel like this is underutilized by specialist doctors, where most of the time they only focus on their specialties and care little about putting together the whole puzzle together. I feel with the sharing of records, this will become less of a normal practice.

2) Do you agree with physicians owning Medical Records?

I’m a little on the fence here. Everyone should be in charge of their own bodies. But, the medical record also contains the personal notes of what the doctor is documenting, his/her personal writing and thoughts, and that is their property. The consent form you sign is to let you know that HIPPA regulations will be upheld and only transfers will be authorized by the patient and notes will be confidential.

I don’t think many people understand this ownership of the physicians. But, I think it should be more widely known to provide greater transparency into our medical system.