At 21:40 on 8/11/96, dr. frederick a. deutsch wrote:
> >Thought that I'd share this with the group - just got it hot off the press
> from the States - not that too much clinical stuff has been flowing lately
> but the tide may well turn and I think that this concept should be kept
>in mind
>
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> >Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 15:45:29 +0000
> >Reply-To: Child Neurology Mailing List <[log in to unmask]>
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> >From: Wendy Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: perils of listservers
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >There is an interesting commentary in Pediatrics, September, V98, p453 on the
> >potential medlegal implications of using listservers as informal consults.
> I thi
> >nk
> >it raises one important point. While it is very useful to be able to post
> >cases and get quick replies from colleagues, there should be some sort of
> >specific agreement between us that if you post a case and get replies, you DO
> >NOT print out the replies and put them in patient charts under any
> >circumstances. The printout would make the replies part of the record and
> >therefore "discoverable" in the event of a suit, and potentially could
>make it
> >seem that a "consult" was obtained. This would involve the person replying to
> >your query in your suit. I have already had the experience of finding out
> that a
> >n
> >attorney was "lurking" on a list, and knew of inconsistencies between what
> >someone said as an official "expert" and what they said on an informal email
> >list. I hope there are no such users on this list.
>
Nice point.
It was discussed on GP-UK (a list for GP's from Britain, and the rest og
the world). They considered the NET a broadcasting medium, which we should
treat like it really is.
Perhaps that in a (near by) future an INFRA-STRUCTURE for SECURITY will be
erected which will make it possible to solve this problem.
In my idealistic view it must become possible to declaere documents or
parts of it to be usable for certain uses only.
In other words restrict the scope and consequences any communication of
data can have.
Greetings
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands (31) 174-384296/ Fax: -386249
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS
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