On Thursday 08 April 2004 10:52, Bill Westwood wrote:
> What would happen if your GP clinical system came from a remote server?
> Imagine not being able to access clinical records for 48 hours or more! Who
> would indemnify us if a mistake occurred as a result of this?
Nobody, I suspect. The usual suspects would declare that it is up to us to
determine whether to trust the system enough to not keep duplicated
handwritten notes, and that if we did, that it was our responsibility when
they went home at teatime on Friday and the system didn't work until coffee
time on Monday. Etc.
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Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/
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