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I thought that was a common thing. Where do you live?


I've been to doctors in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and never heard of any such online system for reviewing your results. There's no incentive to provide the results to the patient without an in-person consultation they can bill the insurance company for.


Yes there is,.. the empowered patient,.. Nj Hitech has just has assisted 5,500 physicians to EHR's systems, the hospital's are required as well. Patient Portals (PHR's) will follow. We are a start up working with Personal Medical Records (PHR's), making it feasible for you to use set aside insurance funds for wellness products ad services. Keep the faith, maintaining your health and promoting wellness is getting easier !!


This year is the first for physician attestation for MUS2, give it some time. Chances are you will have to actively ask for login information if you are seeing a doctor in a small(er) private practice, as it's likely not a core priority of their EHR software (think 'it's there because it has to be, not because we actually expect anyone to use it'). Of my 6 doctors, 3 have EHRs with patient portals, but none of them are populated with encounter data or visit notes; two don't use an EHR and one is associated with UCSF and uses Epic, so I get MyChart.

Last month I was trying to get a copy of my MRI from UCSF, but their cd burner on the PACS was down. They are participants in RSNA image share so patients can opt to import scans into a portal but it took me 3 people in the radiology library before finding someone who knew anything about it.




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