Despite all the talk about NHS Net I am still less than clear about
this.
(Whereas within 5 minutes I knew exactly where I stood on the matter
with my current ISP)
I envisage and desire the pervasive network, and agree that the NHS
(and the NHS Family and Friends, and their patients, managers and
clients, observers, auditors and politicians) is a good info space to
start pervading.
SO, we require that the connection is extended to every GP at home, so
that they can run their surgery system from home, call up notes and so
on.
It is also needed in the out of hours centres, and at patients' homes
when one visits, occasionally.
Those of us with schoolage children will find a need for them to access
the internet from home occasionally (at least until the D of Education
produces EduNet, a service restricted to only those in education, their
families, friends supervisors, school boards and so on...)
So do we require two ISPs, or do we log on to NHS Net with our strong
authentication cards (£50 spent that I don't have to at present) and
then let our children use our account on NHS Net?
If we have a network at home, as I do, and a sixth-former logs on to a
standard ISP on the Wild Internet with a modem on one terminal, at the
same time as I log on at another terminal using my authentication card
to NHS Net at another, has the security model just gone flop?
I think that somewhere along the line from the idea that all of the NHS
should be connected using the technology of the internet, to the
realisation that everyone else should be connected in like fashion,
some thread in the chain of argument has broken down and simple thought
about what happens in doctors' houses (yours and mine this year,
everyones' in 5 years time) has not had a look in.
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