In article <[log in to unmask]>, Adrian
Midgley <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Next year I want
>
>in the out of hours centre, a computer on which I can call up my
>practice system, and safely use the notes of my patients.
>
WE DO THIS
>to be able to enable trusted colleagues to do the same with my practice
>system, and them to enable me to do the same (when I was a trainee we
>had keys to the surgeries in the rota.  Rarely used, but in principle
>we could obtain the notes of the patient we were seeing for a
>colleague, subject to the security controls then regarded as
>appropriate.)
>
AND THIS - INDIVIDUAL PASSWORDS - forced time expire
>to be able to use my PC at home to call up the practice system, using a
>connection whose cost does not noticeably depend upon the amount of
>information I pass over it, and to do on that system anything I can do
>from my desk in the practice.  (But not necessarily anything I can do
>from the server console in the practice)
>
>to be able to do the same at the branch surgery, with my laptop.
>
>to be able to e-mail my friends, or view their websites in the wild
>woolly web, at the same time as I read a patient's record
this would be very nice
>
>my daughter to be able to browse the web for clarinet music, chemistry
>or something to do with horses, none of which I take to be priority
>components of the resources to be available on NHS Net.
>
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>How to Approach it
>------------------------
>The technology of the Internet is the way to go.  This is a moving
>target to be sure, but adopting it as standard allows us to move with
>it.  
>
>The key virtues of the Internet are the common platform for
>communication and other services such as Telnet which are also
>important, and the simple fact that it connects everybody or anybody. 
>To abandon this in favour of a landlocked backwater would only make
>sense if it satisfied the needs and wishes of the users.  
>
>The proposed solution is not satisfactory, even provided free to GPs it
>will represent poorer value than could be achieved more easily by
>listening to the users.
>
not sure about this - there may be a need to share information within
the NHS, and the internet is too "free" and too large - Uk information
is likely to be more useful. 
>The NHS has the opportunity here to make a major computer project work,
>something which it has far too frequently in the past managed to turn
>into a defeat snatched ingeniously from the jaws of victory.  This one
>is the big one guys, concentrate.
>
>
>
interesting viewpoint though

regards
Huw
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Huw Thomas


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