securing distributed partial medical records?

[Adrian Midgley]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <4A6E01EE.3060507 at gmail.com>, Adrian Midgley
> <amidgley at gmail.com> writes
>>> ... local GP and ask your GP's
>>> receptionist face-to-face to see your paper records.
>>
>> My records are not paper.
> 
> My hospital records are. About two inches think now. And still the first
> question they ask is always "when did you first get treatment for this,
> and why". I think it must actually be small-talk to keep me engaged
> while they read the bits they really want to know.


Hospital, yes.

But they are not accessible from your GP.

Or to your GP.

The indexing is sufficiently poor - absent usually - that it is probably
an effort to seek effectively to the right part of the file.

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