securing distributed partial medical records?

[Adrian Midgley]

Suposing we don't hoover(TM) everyone's entire medical record up from
the several places that pieces of it are at present into one large new
system for the whole world (currently for world read "England").


Supposing we set up certain services where someone goes, and has a photo
 of the back of their eye taken whcih is of interest to their opttican
and ophthalmologist, to their GP, to their endocrinologist, and to any
physician wondering if their hypertension is significant; or of a skin
lesion using clever imaging that looks below the surface a little; or an
ECG or a chest xray.



I like the idea of leaving those images, that data, the vector of the
ECG and the conclusions of the artificial and real intelligences that
look at it where they are, but passing a pointer to other systems that
need, want opr should assemble those pieces togehter to show to a doctor
looking after teh whole patient.


How do we secure it adequately?


and then after sending this, I got this ...


 <http://www.bir.org.uk/safe_sharing.html>

Safe Sharing of Documents and Images
across Healthcare Domains

A one day meeting organised by Dr Malcolm Newbury on behalf of the British
Institute of Radiology and the Health Informatics arm of the British
Computer Society.

The interactive meeting will explore the key issues of patient document and
image sharing across healthcare domains and review the industry response to
these issues as presented by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE).
The experiences of Primary and Acute NHS Trusts, as well as federal
governments will be explored.

Programme

Please note that times and speakers may be subject to change.


09:30

Registration and Coffee


10:00

Meeting the challenge of efficient sharing of documents and images in
healthcare - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)




Dr Nicholas Brown, IHE-UK


10:40

Practical implementation issues




Mr Ian Herbert , British Computer Society Healthcare Informatics Group


11:20

Image and document sharing project in the Multi disciplinary team setting




Dr Richard Harries and Dr Stephen Trowell, North Lincolnshire and
Goole NHS Hospital Trust


12:00

Lunch


12:50

IHE document sharing and its contribution to electronic health record
interoperability




Dr Dipak Kalra, Centre for Healthcare Informatics and Multi-Professional
Education


13:30

The role of the CfH ToolKit in information sharing




Speaker TBC


14:10

Coffee Break


14:30

The US Nationwide Health Information Network




Mr Malcolm Newbury, EMEA Healthcare Business Development Director, Sun
Microsystems


15:00

 Data access and ownership in the UK




Speaker TBC


15:45

Panel Discussion


16:15

Close



Full details and to book your place now:
http://www.bir.org.uk/safe_sharing.html





I wonder.