securing distributed partial medical records?

[Adrian Midgley]

jul kornbluth wrote:

> *Our Health eCard puts the complete digital medical records in the hands of
> the patient.  It can be kept up to date after every encounter with
> clinicians in 30 seconds flat.  

That is 5% of the time allocated.  I'd rather do some medicine, or chat
about holidays for that matter.


> And in most cases he is there on hand when
> they diagnose, treat or operate on him!*

We do a lot more.  It isn't there then, for instance when a letter
arrives, unless a backing database exists, whcih will then have either
the entire set of problems of the NHS Spine, or the entire set of
problems I'm discussing.

In short, it appears completely useless to me, and I expect NHS money
would be spent on buying 60 million of the damn things and the software
to run them.

If you are going to do that sort of thing, it should be built into the
citizen roadcrossing card.  (without which you may not cross a road)


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A