BBC medical records story

[Peter Gutmann]

Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk> writes:
>On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>>This idea is a complete
>>non-starter, as several organisations who have tried it in the past have
>>already discovered.
>The idea of the NHS bureacracy looking after my medical records is, IMO, a
>"complete non-starter". But that is how they are looked after.

Centrally-administered records are a non-starter for political or philosophical
reasons, while patient-administered records are a non-starter for technical and
practical reasons.  There's a slight difference.

(Electronic medical records have been around for ages - the NHI in NZ, EPR in
the UK, and EHR in the US - but apart from the (very minimal) KVK in Germany
I don't know of anyone who's had much success with patient-held records.  I
know it's certainly been *tried*...).

Peter.