Monday, October 08, 2018

Medical EDI Electronic Data Interchange

"A paperless hospital office is the goal of the US healthcare system as it provides more efficient, and thus cheaper, data distribution, retrieval, search, and analysis"
The above may be the biggest Hoax of all times 

 What used to be a well thought out,experienced, Medical consultation report  about 1 or 2 paragraphs has become multiple pages of Useless Gibberish. You are forced to search for the grain among the chaff.
I have worked with specialists in various specialities in  1970s and 80s where they would spend  an hour  examining and explaining and interacting with the patient  then  write  2 to 4  absolutely relevant  sentences  or  pickup the phone and  talk to the referring  GP or another specialist.
Now just like  the  useless gibberish of radiology reports consultation reports are useless multi page  gibberish.
In order to understand why this happened is what i am after.
in that process  I need to  find out about the  secret codes ,handshakes,ceremonies of the  new  healthcare informatics.Just like the  masonic codes,handshakes and mysterious  ceremonies.
let us start with a list of  cryptic Acronyms.

 EDI
"To address the problem of rising healthcare costs and to enhance the quality and efficiency of care, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) was formed in 1991 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 establishing national standards for healthcare EDI transactions, the WEDI was one of the instruments used to implement it.
Let’s dig a bit deeper and find out what exactly an EDI is and how it can benefit the entire healthcare system."


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