securing distributed partial medical records?

[Roland Perry]

In article <4A6E2B02.2050202 at gmail.com>, Adrian Midgley 
<amidgley at gmail.com> writes
>> 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.

But isn't this what they are putting online? By contrast, there's little 
need to put GP records online because only the GP really needs them, and 
if you go to hospital they start a new set of records, which are then 
needed in a dozen different bits of the hospital.
-- 
Roland Perry