4. These are Fred’s numbers. 46 ambulance transports 6 hour wait while staff try to cobble together a medical record using a phone and a fax machine Treated at 5 facilities during 11weeks of hospitalization Prescribed 4 types of Pain Killers and 4 types of Laxatives 3 months of Primary Doctor’s Visits 2 Hospital Emergency Rooms 1 Patientnamed Fred
5. This is Regina begging for access to the information within the electronic medical record. She wants to find out about the spread of Fred’s Cancer.
6. After walking into the hospital on March 25, 2009 Fred Holliday, He became the patient in room 6218. He spent the next 25 days hospitalized with no access to his own record. Regina went down to medical records and was told “It is 73 cents per page and a 21 day wait to get a copy of the patient medical record.” On the 26th day, the doctor said he was sending Fred home on a PCA pump. He was sending Fred home to die.
7. After waiting for5days for a transfer to another hospital for a second opinion, they were sent with an out of date and incomplete medical record and transfer summary. The new staff spent 6 hours trying to cobble together a current medical record Using a telephone and a fax machine.
9. This is the vital clinical information from Fred’s electronic medical record. Presented in the style of the Nutrition Facts Label. Then painted on the wall of Pumpernickel’s Deli in Washington, DC.
10. This is the painting 73 cents. This is the vital patient story, the social history , the sacred heart of Fred’s ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD.