{"id":4393,"date":"2008-04-27T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:13:06","slug":"pointcounterpoint-unintentionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/pointcounterpoint-unintentionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Point\/Counterpoint, Unintentionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWorld runs two stories this week which illustrate a point\/counterpoint, albeit unintentionally.<\/p>\n<p>First, an editorial shrieking about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=315789&#038;pageNumber=2\" target=\"_new\">not having electronic medical records is dangerous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The medical data that might have saved me several hours of terror sat unused. It was unavailable to doctors outside of Dartmouth-Hitchcock&#8217;s Keene clinic, except by mail or fax. And even if the clinic could transmit my records, Charlotte Regional Medical Center&#8217;s systems were incapable of receiving them. According to its records department, the hospital still uses paper-based processes for its medical records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, here&#8217;s a frightening story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9080322&#038;intsrc=hm_list\" target=\"_new\">online medical records<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>University of Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup tapes from its medical school that contained more than 2 million medical records was stolen in March from a van that was transporting the data to an off-site facility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps someone in the know weighs the chances of a faulty diagnosis against the chances of the data being stolen and determined the risk of theft is greater.  Perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s a consideration to make, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWorld runs two stories this week which illustrate a point\/counterpoint, albeit unintentionally. First, an editorial shrieking about how not having electronic medical records is dangerous: The medical data that might have saved me several hours of terror sat unused. It was unavailable to doctors outside of Dartmouth-Hitchcock&#8217;s Keene clinic, except by mail or fax. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17338,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/17338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}