BBC medical records story

[Peter Gutmann]

Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

>>patient-administered records are a non-starter for technical and
>>practical reasons.
>
>Bollocks.
>
>Pregnancy records are patient held, and have been for years. They are time-
>critical and important, thus cannot be left to the bureaucrats. 

That's a single special case in which the patient has considerable incentive
(and an unchangeable, fixed schedule) to take care of things.  I can't see the
average patient (eg the typical bloke who won't go and see a doctor until after
his leg has fallen off from gangrene) doing this.

Peter.