securing distributed partial medical records?

[Roland Perry]

In article <4A6F4B5E.7010503 at gmail.com>, Adrian Midgley 
<amidgley at gmail.com> writes
>> Things are better these days. I keep the official record of "travel
>> vaccinations" given to me at the GP surgery, and my children had a
>> similar self-held record (supposedly an experiment, not sure if it was
>> ever rolled out) where their entire regular 'development' history
>> including weights and heights as well as examinations and vaccinations
>> was put in a little red book.
>
>Standard.
>However, it is a new handwritten record introduced after the GP records
>(general practice is where most stuff with children happens) had become
>fully electronic, and designed so that it cannot be printed from them.
>
>The result is a second partial system.

It's partial for things like vaccinations only if it's not updated 
properly, and the parents fail to complain that it's not been updated 
properly. The public policy question in our nanny state is "who has the 
most responsibility for making sure it is complete".
-- 
Roland Perry