Wandered in this morning to find the fax tray on my machine sagging under a pile of multiple copies of THE SAME DAMN MRI REPORT.
On perusing it I found this line at the bottom (obviously, I can't scan the real one):
"Please send copies of this report to Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D., Ibee Grumpy, M.D., Thelma Fizzy, M.D., Woody Uro, M.D.
Woody and Thelma, hope you guys had plenty of paper in your machines when you left on Friday.
Didn't know you had to cut down a forest to do an MRI. Huh.
ReplyDeleteWow I hope that was not a human doing the faxing.
ReplyDeleteWhy are we still faxing? Can't these things be e-mailed?
ReplyDelete"I'm not just the owner of the MRI clinic, I'm also a client!"
ReplyDeleteGen.... you would think so, but its easier said than done.
ReplyDeleteFirst, you have HIPAA -- most people agree that email is not an acceptable method of sending private health information (PHI) since it is not encrypted and can be read by anyone between the sender and the doctor's computer. There are ways to encrypt it (put it in a PDF for instance), but they are still clumsy.
Second, most physicians use paper records, so a fax isn't really a problem since they would need to print it anyway.
Third, those who don't use paper records, either are integrated with the radiologist/lab/whatever so it shows up in their workflow automagically, or it is faxed-> EMR directly.
End result: doctor's offices live and die by their fax machine. Even a solo practitioner probably sends/receives 500+ pages a month, and possibly a lot more.
Well fuck. To the first Anon - some Humans just work like robots without questioning anything, and that is actually very scary.
ReplyDeleteSure you weren't a victim of the old 'black fax' routine? Pissed anyone with your fax number off lately?
ReplyDeleteDr. Woody Uro?
ReplyDeleteBWA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Can't believe nobody called you on that!
Wonder if he shares an office with a psychiatrist who refers patients for ECT. Then they could be Woody and Buzz...