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Originally Posted by amandalouise
they dont .....call........a therapist.
you know how DMV in any state can type in your drivers license or state ID number and it will give the DMV a report on you, whether you have tickets and so on.... same with social security they have a system nation wide where all they need to do is type in your name and social security number and see your "history"
Well treatment providers (physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, specialists ...) they have a central data base system too. where one doctor or any other treatment provider can if they want to, type in your name and date of birth or your name and social security number and see your "history" with physical and mental health problems, allergies and so forth.
next time you go to a pharmacy to have your meds refilled notice whether they ask you name, date of birth and get on their computers, next time you go to the hospital ask them if they keep their files in some room or whether they use a medical data base, ask your therapist whether they have a central data base that is just for the agency or if its an online central data base so that if you travel to another state and need to see someone they can have access to your records. those questions will tell you whether your area is set up in this way or not.
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A lot of what you said about central data base is incorrect. Perhaps it’s correct for your area only.
Central data applies only to a specific hospital network only. My gyn and my GP belong to different networks, for example.
When I take a test in my gyn office, my GP has no access to it unless I give a permission for my results to be faxed to him. My husband has surgery coming up. His surgeon and our GP are not on the same network. They have no access to his information unless we ask for results to be faxed to a surgeon. Surgeon can’t see nothing on any central data base, such data base doesn’t exist.
My husband was referred to a cardiologist to check his heart before surgery, cardiologist could see GP’s notes because he is in the same network. But surgeon can’t see none of it. Different network. For example, GP is on Beaumont network and gyn is on Ascension Providence network. No central data base. You have to give a permission for it to be faxed, no access to data base (Examples of my specific area).
In addition therapy is entirely different story. Many people see private therapist and pay out of pocket or whoever they see isn’t part of any kind of hospital system. So no there is no central data base disclosing to random strangers that I talk to a therapist once a month. So no hospitals will be calling anyone without my permission and in addition no hospitals have any knowledge of me seeing a therapist
This “big brother watching” fear of everything being on a central data base is only true to an extent. It’s not universally true at all