Healthcare Town Hall

Mike Kreidler, John Hammarlund, George Scriban, Scott Armstrong, and Ron Sims  discuss EHR as a catalyst for healthcare reform, responding to a question submitted by Cody Augdahl.

For submitting this question, Cody Augdahl is a finalist in our question contest. Congratulations, Cody.

Transcript:

Q: I have another question that came from someone who submitted one before the event; it was submitted via e-mail. It’s kind of an interesting question. It asks us to imagine the day when, in fact, a majority of the U.S. population has adopted personally controlled health records. What kind of impact would that have more broadly on the system potentially, do you think? I mean, it’s a little bit hard to put ourselves out there and imagine the circumstance, Mike, but could you see how that might be a catalyst for other change?

Mike Kreidler: I think you need a great deal more transparency in the system than you have right now, and that’s one of the real problems. You can’t even do any accounting in the system right now because of the variation that you have. 

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George Scriban, Microsoft HealthVault Senior Global Strategist, addresses this topic as panelist at Healthcare Town Hall.

Transcript:

Q: George Scriban, talk to us a little bit about HealthVault at Microsoft and what it can do for consumers. I imagine that still many people are just not aware of HealthVault and all that it potentially could do.

George Scriban: I think what we’re seeing is that the benefits of electronic health records kind of depend on where they’re deployed. Within a provider setting, the benefits are a very different set than when we’re talking about the deployment of something like the capability of collecting and aggregating your health information personally, and that’s where HealthVault plays. It’s interesting.

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George Scriban, Microsoft HealthVault Global Stratgeist, addresses this question as panelist at Healthcare Town Hall.

Transcript:

Q: George, is this a situation where industry standards will resolve issues, or is it more of a winner-take-all situation with HealthVault as Windows of the future for healthcare?

George Scriban: Well, it’s an interesting question. Obviously, I don’t think this is a winner-take-all situation simply because the business here isn’t so much trapping data. The business, particularly for a platform like HealthVault, is actually liberating it. Right?

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Here’s a written transcript of the Healthcare Town Hall video segment on ownership of electronic health records.

Q: Gail Graham, in the case of the V.A., who owns the patient records in your system?

Gail Graham: Well, by statute, V.A., as the custodian of the record. But the information is actually owned by the patient, and the control and the release of that information is owned by the patient. We do have legal parameters for how we keep it and the duration for which we keep it. But disclosures of that information are established in the Privacy Act and in HIPAA. And I think for us, too, our patients have a long history of maintaining a copy of their record that dates back to their military service. So even before provisions of HIPAA allowed for amendment and getting copies of your records, it was a very commonplace thing for the veterans to keep a copy of their medical record as they moved around.

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Town Hall panelists continue the conversation about the ownership of health information.

George Scriban of Microsoft, John Hammarlund of CMS,  Dr. Joe Scherger of Lumetra, and Dr. Jim Schibanoff of the Milliman Care Guidelines field the question

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