Acting in a Digital World
I was surfing the net one day and came across this independent film and thought it looked interesting. It’s about the unlikely friendship between two women that seem to be on the polar opposite sides of body issues but eventually realize they have much more in common that they first thought.
These are the type of movies that I wish Hollywood would make more of and that made me want to become an actor.
Website: www.DisfiguredMovie.com
Trailer: www.DisfiguredMovie.com/trailer.html
iHealthRecord.org is a service run by Medem, a nonprofit founded in 1999 by the American Medical Association and six other medical societies. They offer free and secure services for patients to keep track of their health history and prescriptions. They are hoping, with offering these free services, more people will start to track and control their health records. With more patients doing this, the hope is it will start to pressure doctors into using paperless methods to track patient records and prescribe medications (and thereby reducing the estimated 50,000 to 100,000 deaths each year from medical errors).
Using the website, not only can you input your medical history, you can also carry around an ID card that in case of an emergency, any doctor can use the information on the card to look up your complete history before trying to treat you. You can also be kept updated if any drugs you happen to be taken are taken off the shelf for any reason.
My worse fear has always gotten a call that someone I care about is in the hospital and doctors are needing information that I do not have and they are not able to get to in time. I don’t want to put the people I care about in the same position so I will ensure I take control of my health records and provide a easy and secure way for this data to be shared if the time should arise.
I hate Mondays. I really do. Get into work this morning and I read an email stating that on March 28, 2005, the San Jose Medical Group (with whom Blue Shield of California contracts with AND I have my insurance through), was burglarized and two computers were stolen. Seems as if these computers contained names, addresses, confidential medical information and Social Security numbers. Although I haven’t been contacted telling me I was in those computers that were stolen. We were still given warning and told to “watch out”. Meaning, they lost the computers and I’M the one that has to deal with the effects.
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Came across a website that is quite scary. The website Hartz Victims, documents the vet bills, sickness and even death of pets after their owners bought and used various Hartz products. It’s not as if these products are experimental or were used in some way they were not intended to be. These poor owners bought the product and used it because it was on the shelf of a respectable store. How were they to know that even though such products are under the watchful eye of the EPA as well as various State and Federal regulations, such a product would be allowed to be sold after causing so many deaths and problems. I thought that’s what these regulations, rules, laws and guidelines were suppose to be in place in order to product the citizens of this country. No instead, they keep them on the shelf and keep collecting your money as they send your pet to the grave.
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