BBC medical records story

[Peter Tomlinson]

"Peter Gutmann" <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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.
>
Having consulted Dorothy Higginson (Smartex Ltd), who has been following the
medical records progress for some time, she believes that we will in fact
have a distributed computerised methodology in the UK. Whether these systems
will be linked in such a way that Doctor A in hospital B can retrieve your
records that have been input by Doctors C, D, E and F into their local
health centre's server (or vice versa) seems to be still an open question.
And there will also be some records carried by some patients.

Peter