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>>> I still prefer the smart card
>>>idea which the patient carries with them. Is it still going on in
>>>Exmouth?
>>
>>No.
>Any idea why not?
>Did it happen to work and frightened them off?
Sort of worked.
The cards had insufficient memory, so there was not a lot on them.
The staff in Casualty where I was at the time took pains to switch off
the reader - a networked 286 with terminals - as often and quickly as
possible, and the way of dealing with a card was to heave a big sigh
and then print it out...
I think we are better off to have a system of each medical record
repository acting as a server to return defined subsets of a patient's
record held on it when requested by a properly authenticated client,
over the fast network.
The licenced callers would obviously include the patient, and anyone
treating hom who could certify they ahd permission form the patient.
The same would apply between hospital labs and GPs, and between GPs
when th epatient moved.
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