Comments on: Does mHealth need a doctor’s prescription?

By: kim smith

kim smith — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:48:17 +0000

We use http://www.drfirst.com for all our electronic prescribing needs. E-prescribing is more accurate and safer than traditional hand written scripts. No more handwriting errors and when you e-prescribe you don’t have to worry about drug interactions or allergies because all your information is in the system.

By: David Doherty

David Doherty — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:09:37 +0000

@John Boden: Great point about patients voting with their feet

@Brian Dolan: “does mhealth need a doctors prescription?” – a lot of value in Healthcare is created through the meeting of specialists (a Doctor and their Patient). mHealth is no doubt going to add to the ability for the patient to contribute even more to this meeting but it never was, and isn’t going to become, a completely one sided partnership.

By: John Boden

John Boden — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:15:11 +0000

I agree that now the PHR push is from the top so what can we patients do? I know it feels like we are powerless, but here is one thing we can do. Ask your provider if they have your health record in electronic format and can you access it on the Internet. If their answer is “No” or “You can’t have access” you do have a choice. You can find another provider that does keep their records in an electronic format and does provide you access via the internet.

It was not that many years ago when many merchants did not accept credit cards. But as more and more of their customers went down the street to those that did, it was in a relatively short time that merchants everywhere accepted them. If medical providers saw their patients go to someone else because they didn’t offer their patients access to their own health records, the medical community would rapidly reach the “Tipping Point” and access to our records would flood into common usage.

This is at least we can do keep the presssure on, one small push at a time.