Quotes About Medical Records

#1. Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Nathan Deal

#2. Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

Thomas Carper

#3. Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Temple Grandin

#4. In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

Virginia Postrel

#5. We need to have our medical records put on the IT.

George W. Bush

#6. Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions: what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records?

Jon Stewart

#7. Emergency department physicians spent 44 percent of their time entering data into electronic medical records, clicking up to 4,000 times during a 10-hour shift. - Becker's Health IT & CIO Review magazine, October 11, 2013

Robert Wachter

#8. Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

Craig Venter

#9. What Lucie was hearing surpassed all understanding. A mass derangement, with the aid of bogus medical records and money under the table.

Franck Thilliez

#10. The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

Timothy Murphy

#11. And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Lois Capps

#12. With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Jon Porter

#13. These were times when all were judged squarely and fairly on their musical tastes, and a personal music collection read as private medical records.

Morrissey

#14. In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#15. Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

John Ashcroft

#16. There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history ... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records ...

Paul Ryan

#17. We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

Jay Leno

#18. The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

Richard Carmona

#19. I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

Samuel Wilson

#20. After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

Richard Reeves

#21. My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

Jerry Hall

#22. I'm proposing ... that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

John Wilbanks

#23. I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

Fiona Apple

#24. I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

Emily Watson

#25. Studies have proved that checking records, possible diagnoses and drug interactions on a computer during a medical examination can interfere with what should be not only a fact-based investigation but a deeply human, partly intuitive and empathetic process.

Anonymous

#26. The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

Jose Serrano

#27. Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability to stop and adjust instantly in the midst of movement - just in case you initiate a wrong move!

J. Barnes

#28. A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Mitch Kapor

#29. By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care

George W. Bush

#30. I'm not going to pretend I'm something I'm not so that you like me more.

Dan Pearce

#31. Cultivate a positive mental attitude. Your attitude influences your perceptions and your perceptions influence your decisions and your decisions influence your reality.

Deon Potgieter

#32. If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don't be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases a culture will be lost.

Andrew Dalby

#33. If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?

Timothy Murphy

#34. Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

Kevin R. Stone