Re: Link to Living Wills/Advance directives previously posted

I really don't spend a lot of time worrying about what someone *might* do
with my advance directive. Too busy living my life.

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Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"radioactive_ape" <Alejandro.Harper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Why aren't there more online advance health care directive registries,
> like the one Arizona (http://www.azsos.gov/) just implemented in March?
> I understand that Kaiser Hospitals are implementing a digital medical
> patient record with epic (http://www.epicsys.com/), but what will it
> entail, and will it be user friendly enough to be able to easily bring
> up a living will/Advance directive/DNR ECT.... I understand that these
> are all questions for hospitals for look into. But when their system
> fails and they can't find my medical records, and give me a shot of
> something that would kill me when I want to stay alive. Or they mix my
> record up with John Doe, and kill me by accident. Besides the fact that
> I'd be dead, people (I hope) would be fairly ticked off. What I'm
> trying to get at is that there are probably many groups who have
> started putting these files online and the hospital organizations are
> just too lazy to implement them. Because lets face it, when changing
> over to a new system for any organization, regardless of what it
> pertains to, it is difficult.
>
> Well anyway, there's some food for thought. I will try to find more
> groups that do online: health directives, medical records, and other
> such documents; and post them later. if anyone else can find any that
> would be great.
>


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