Electronic medical record (EMR) Psychiatric

An electronic medical record (EMR) is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital or physician's office. Electronic medical records tend to be a part of a local stand-alone health information system that allows storage, retrieval and modification of records.
Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_medical_record

Just as you would check your credit report to prevent erroneous information from sabotaging your financial life, routinely taking a look at a copy of your medical records to make sure they’re accurate can offer you both medical and financial protection. The contents of your medical records can have real consequences...

This reminds me of a part of my psychiatric living will.

"I maintain my right not to have any psychiatric evaluation or diagnosis based upon the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as such diagnoses are unreliable. According to Allen Frances, who was chairman of the fourth edition of DSM, “There are no objective tests in psychiatry—no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitely that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.” (“Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis,” Psychology Today, 2 June 2010.) Additionally, the DSM system is not scientific. It’s own editors state that “there is no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries dividing it from other mental disorders or from no mental disorder.” (DSM-IV, pg. xxii)
Such codes and descriptions should not be entered into my medical records as this unreliable and unscientific information will remain in my records and may wrongly influence any future medical treatment I might receive."
I changed some things from the original I found here: http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-living-will/ but not the part about the DSM codes.

What Rights do I have to My Medical Records?

HIPAA, the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), guarantees consumers the right to access and make corrections to their medical records. Health care providers are also required to comply with state laws.

You can read a full listing of consumer rights guaranteed by HIPAA at the Health and Human Services web site.http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/

Has anyone seen there electronic medical record (EMR) ? or know how to look at it online ?

awesome topic! i cannot stress to all the importance of reading the links provided in this topic very carefully. HIPAA is already designed to confuse us, and protect psych from long overdue legal action! great idea about the DSM codes in your psych advanced directives! I will re-do mine before Monday with that addition! oh yeah, people.... if you do not have a psych advanced directive, google the terms "mental health advanced directives (State you live in)" There is a website that provides the links as well, just can't remember it at present.Here it is! http://www.nrc-pad.org/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,14/Itemid,57/ Those papers are made of tripple platinum diamond-titanium! Florida's are available in DCF (Dept. of Children & Families') "Baker Act Handbook".[url]https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bakeracttraining.org%2Fbamanual%2F2011BakerActRevFINAL.pdf/url]

Great topic for anyone who wants/needs to really be "pro-active", not only in their own care, but to help "us" fight back, when "wronged", by deceptive/coercive 'care'.

ED209v2 wrote: Florida's are available in DCF (Dept. of Children & Families') "Baker Act Handbook". https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bakeracttraining.org%2Fbamanual%2F2011BakerActRevFINAL.pdf Great topic for anyone who wants/needs to really be "pro-active", not only in their own care, but to help "us" fight back, when "wronged", by deceptive/coercive 'care'.

Baker Act Handbook, Im looking at this now.

Check out: "Brief reactive psychosis, referred to in the DSM IV-TR as "brief psychotic disorder with marked stressor(s)", is the psychiatric term for psychosis which can be triggered by an extremely stressful event in the life of an individual. 'BRP is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, catatonic symptoms, and strange speech, but the symptoms last for a very short period (one day to one month) after which the individual returns to full normal functioning'."

How many people I wonder get Baker acted and given a psych label and a lifetime commitment to psychiatric drugs when its "breif reactive pschosis" DSM IV 298.8 ?

BRP generally occurs 'following a stressful life event (i.e. house move, divorce, becoming homeless, etc.)- but the trigger 'may be any experience deemed catastrophic by the affected individual'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_reactive_psychosis

I was expected to agree to start taking anti-psychotics and trileptal for the rest of my life when I went to the hospital all bugged out from mega-stress/drinking and my refusal of these medications led to threats of lockup at the state hospital and/or a forced depot injection of long acting antipsychotics. The fact I took the standard coercive threats of forced injection (chemical rape) and state hospital (psych-prison) so badly proves I was a bit "psychotic" and looking back the stress/anger from these threats kept me in that state longer but I knew I was bugged out at the time (insight). I have never taken trileptal and was not exposing myself to that stuff or taking the huge doses of nueroleptics the were coercing, I had the insight to know I was "bugged out" and it would go away. Benzos would have helped.

My medical records should say "breif reactive pschosis" DSM IV 298.8 , not what ever chronic psychiatric condition they labelled me with (I was never told) I guess bipolar... mixed. I was also drinking at my stress before this hospital visit.

They were wrong, Im fine. Im into fitness and health now, not "trileptal" and nueroleptics all day. I did the psych drug nightmare, never again. Not even the "fun" ones. adderal xanax...

Also See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_breakdown

Also I remember looking at this brochure in the hospital explaining "psych terminology" and the part I remember thats related to this post , it said "dont say nervous breakdown, say depression..." as an example. Its a scam to make everything "medical" so it needs medicating.