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The Patient Portal—Help or Hindrance?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: 21 hours ago | Replies (258)Comment receiving replies
I have several issue with the Patient Portal.
1) I can't even get into it with my new Doctor and the Receptionist has tried twice to no avail.
2) I really don't want to see it all; I would rather have my Doctor interpret the results.
3) I recently found out from a doctor that they are able to access other portals and he proved it to me!
So, where is the privacy in all of this IF any Doctor or savvy person can view what I think should be my private information?
Some progress really isn't progress.
Another example is online appointments. My husband actually had a skin cancer diagnosed via iphone pictures!
He went somewhere else and no cancer.
Beware.
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Appreciate this topic being addressed especially the "where is the privacy in all this?" comment above per who has access to what across different health care faculties. Early on that was not supposed to happen. One element I didn't see in the above was the number of characters limit when sending to the health care professionals for responses or updates. At times I feel like I'm back in grad school with the time required for editing per what I want to say in one message. I've actually started writing drafts in WORD because the system can count the letters and spaces ... then I copy and paste my "final draft" into the portal.