I say this because:
Its positive, motivating, encouraging…rather than relying on the “scare tactics” as G.E. does.

In the next wave of medical record keeping, tone matters. It isn’t just the tool being “sold” its how its being sold and how the information is designed to i) educate consumers and ii) make them feel.

I loved the commercial, even as many times as I saw it during the Olympics.

Surely to upload and have available at the touch of the screen is much Cleaner living reducing the risk of cross contamination of superbugs etc and surely having on line access for professionals and the patient not only reduces the risks but re assures the patient that they still have some form of control on their life style changes which may affect them or their children. Sometimes a patient can go to the doctors and be told something. How many times does it need to be written on peices of paper to allow some news to sink in. When the good people can access the information them selves by a perusal facility peculier to them them selves. Perhaps coming away from the paper transportation and misfiling can pull us more together to enable us all to see what more we can do for each other and for our health care systems. By allowing health care professionals more time by reducing the paper trawl surely is time which can be invested in reducing the waiting time and increasing the medical efficiencies of any organisation thus reducing costs by billions.
Changes are at times scarey but as we all grow older our lives require more attention unless the professional have the time as the population increases then there will be no time until after trawling through the endless reams of paper which have also cost our planet many trees to get there. Let us compare this to the touch of a clean and managable screen putting you in control with your practitioners/Students and patients. Keep on doing the good.

Security: when ordering over the Internet first started many people willing to give their credit card to an unknown in a local restaurant did not trust the online sites. The same attitude prevails, but will be overcome with time. I have more trust in a company with leading edge security protecting my records than the local hospital system that faxes copies of paper records around to unsecure locations.

“Big Brother”: Can the government get to your medical records that your medical insurance company has? Why would electronic medical records be a different situation than already exists.

That statement scares me. The privacy issues on this topic (and the punishments for the violation that privacy) are HUGE and beyond what majority of people currently understand. After all, many people are baffled by the privacy settings on their Facebook page.

The phrase ‘your pants being down’ only touches the surface of the seriousness of this issue. It could affect your chances for employment, qualifying for auto and life insurance, your credit, etc.

We have a saying in social media “On the Internet, your privacy is a myth.”