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There are several sub-questions nested in your query. Thrust of your question makes me assume that this is pointed at US operations. TL; dr: Not easy; lots of moving parts and entrenched, rigid players; Learn by attending events or reviewing web content at HIMSS, AHIMA, vmware, signNow,.. Here are my suggestions:1. Get to understand healthcare info tech data flows: You don't need to be PHI expert. It is however important to understand the dynamics between the stakeholders; There are several players here besides the physician and the patient and these include (but not limited to ) the hospital facility AHA Home Page, the pharmacist, other associated physicians - such as referring or Emergency Dept, insurance companies, America's Health Insurance Plans  governmental agencies -federal the official site for Health IT information  and state. 2. If you have technology/software inclincation, learn the basics of the language used for health data interfaces - it is called HL7 and you can find out more about it thru search engines and also at Health Level Seven International  3. Learn about cloud based solutions and associated architecture: You can read about it at sites such as VMware Virtualization Software for Desktops, Servers & Virtual Machines for Public and Private Cloud Solutions or Compute, Storage, Database (AWS). Storing sensitive documents in a cloud-based environment is not simple and there are multiple factors like cost, access controls,scalability, risk have tobe balanced; you may also need to understand the concepts of single/multi-tenant architecture. 4. In terms of billing, there are many subsystems that are important - there's the  International Classification of Diseases (ICD); The current versions of this in the US are at level 9 , also referred to as ICD-9 and these are being replaced/revamped with a more complex/comprehensive version ICD-10. Then there are the CPT - Current Procedural Terminology codes. It may not be necessary for you to know about HCS-PCS codes. In US, the payments/reimbursements are managed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Many private insurance companies follow the same templates. 5. Digital signatures are getting more traction in healthcare and associated insurance industries (https://www.echosign.signNow.com/e... ) I still run into physicians who prefer to handsign a printed document that can then get scanned. As you can see, this ecosystem is not particularly easy to grasp. In my case, I took a junior level job to get a solid/real ground-level experience. This has a cost and may or may not not work for you. For me, the insights and the learning has been very powerful in many dimensions.

This is important information for those taking care of your mother. The facility and its doctors, nurses, and staff may not have time to search for the one page with all the information, hence asking for it in multiple locations.Most facilities do not have the technology to take a screen-input answer and replicate it across forms.

No. Everyone goes to the same medical schools and is awarded a basic medical degree. Once they have that medical degree, then they are mandated to spend two years of basic medical training, the so-called Postgraduate Years PGY1 and 2.After that, doctors choose a career path and train for it. They don’t simply choose to become physicians or surgeons, but radiologists, pathologists, anaesthesiologists, psychiatrists, obstetricians, general practitioners, and so on.

This does not fall under HIPAA. Under the HIPAA regulations, the entities that must comply with the rules are defined as "covered entities" which are: health care plans, health care providers, and health care clearinghouses. So health clubs or gyms do not meet this definition and are therefore not subject to HIPAA. However, depending on your state, there may be laws which protect the sharing of this type of information.

A best way would be to get a competent and sympathetic physician whom you can follow during his clinical days (clinic and hospital if pertinent). A second would be to enroll with some sympathetic medical school and audit courses. We had a few of those in my medical school. The key word here is 'sympathetic' which seems sadly lacking in today's medical field. We like to blame the lawyers and government, true to a certain degree, but  a good look at our own profession will show that it is indigenous. I would try a smaller community where there still may be a vestige of compassion.

Who does “we” refer to?The obvious answer is for “we” to publish peer reviewed studies thatoutline with clarity dosage and medical needs. then that knowledge needs to make its way into classes, curricula and medical reference books.Currently federal law makes research and publication of research difficult so there is a classic bootstrap and learning curve to overcome.Right to try laws open some of these doors. Some versions of right to try laws indemnify the doctor and the maker of the drug being tried when normal medication has been tried and found to be ineffective.Medical science is complex and specific. Cannabis users are not trained and not specific. Chicken and egg problem… some changes in the federal laws could help by decriminalizing medical use.

Not sure if ‘faith’ is the right word. People are definitely investigating their own problems more, because they have all the time in the world to parse our what’s wrong with them.I figured out that I have dishydrotic eczema on my fingers. I knew what the treatment was. I had to, because for a long time, I couldn’t afford to get evaluated.What a stupid thing, right? I’m required by law to have medical insurance, but so much money goes to monthly premiums that I can’t also afford to pay the deductible and the cost of the medication on top of that. I was paying for a thing I couldn’t even use.When I could finally afford care, it was much easier to sort out the problem. I didn’t have to let my illness build up so it would show the classic signs (palpable blisters within the skin of my fingers and cuticles,) I could just tell the doc what the problem was and that I’d had success with getting rid of it for a time when I’d been given a steroid pack for something else. I got my ointment, I use it with gloves overnight, and my skin is mostly clear now.Working in Medical, I’ve also seen the opposite, where people diagnose themselves with crazy shit because they can’t and don’t understand what they’re looking at. I remember this one Indian lady who insisted she had cancer in her lips because it was discolored on the top. She had this just….natural darker pigmentation all along the skin of the upper part of her upper lip, right where most lipstick-wearing women will actually draw on a darker line on purpose. She refused to leave the office until we took a chunk out of her face for biopsy. We did it, and it came back exactly like we thought it would. Hyperpigmentation. Not cancer.Sometimes looking on WebMD can be helpful. Sometimes it can make patients annoying. Sometimes, together, a rare illness can be suggested and investigated. It all depends.

You go to Quora and get a third opinion. LOL. Seriously the best approach is to inform your doctor that you have been receiving differing information from your other doctor so you are conflicted on what to do. That will allow your doctor to provide justification or their rationale for what they believe.For example, when patients ask me whether they should be taking multivitamins, I tell them that no conclusive studies have shown improvement in outcomes in patients who take multivitamins. I tell patients if they are taking a healthy diet they should be able to receive all their vitamins and minerals from their food with the exception of a vitamin D. In Northern California where I practice I advise my patients to take 2000 units of vitamin D3 supplementation daily because they are not able to get enough sunlight to make vitamin D.

I was a research radiologist for 12 years working in an Imaging Informatics laboratory 70% and working clinically (interpreting imaging studies) 30%. I was then a Chairman of a medium sized department working administration 70% and clinically 30%.I then decided to go back to informatics, this time 100%. It was relatively easy to do. I resigned. I then set up a consulting firm as an S-corp, just as a legal structure in which to work. Set up web pages, tax information, etc. All the little office management things you have to do. Not too challenging. The hardest part is then finding interesting gigs.I would say it is relatively easy to do once you decide that is what you want to do. It is a big change working for a large corporation and then working for yourself. There are, however,many non-clinical opportunities for physicians that are not self employed. I would say that almost any physician of any specialty with a reasonable number of years of experience and positions of leadership can find these opportunities.