A Medical Record Carol?

Why are so many patients and physicians feeling and acting so scroogy when it comes to dealing with the healthcare system?

Are they perhaps living-experiencing the effects of some great societal shift of some type?

Perhaps they have not fully awakened to the awareness that information is the new gold as society has transitioned from the industrial age into the information age?

Why is there a lack of awareness that “The Medical Record” contains many bags of gold?
• PHR - The personal health record, the patient’s bag of gold.
• EMR - The electronic medical record, physician’s bag of gold.
• EHR – The electronic health record, the medical system’s bag of gold.

Could there be frustration caused by attempts to use Industrial age informational tools while the world is advancing into the information age?

• What choices are patients and their physicians making today, and what are the likely, future consequences of those choices?

If information is the new wealth and power, why are so many thinking the only choices are either to be miserly or impoverished? How has life experience led to this either/or view of the world?

• What are our collective ghosts of medical records past?
• What are our collective ghosts of medical records present?
• What are our collective ghosts of medical records future?

Is the gold not just financial wealth, but power and control over what really matters?