If anyone is interested, I can post an old article wot I wrote on the
subject of smartcards. The problems with the technology relate more to the
availability and expense of reading devices, and to whether the patient
carries the card or not, than they do to the capacity of the card.
A
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ahmad Risk
> Sent: 27 September 1998 09:53
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> Subject: Re: GP nets
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> On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:26:01 +0100, Mary Hawking wrote:
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> >Isn't the usefulness of this appraoch dependant on the subsets? Who
> >defines them, and for what purpose?
> >Could we develop a patient-authorised summary?
>
> I rather fancy the idea of the patient 'writing out' chits or
> cheque-like authorisations on a need to know basis (with arrangements
> for the uncon, mental, child, etc).
>
> When I write you a cheque, I actually authorise you to go and *take*
> out a very fixed amount of money from *my* account. I say 50 pounds,
> you get take 50 pounds, no more, no less.
>
> Back to Bill Dodd's idea of a 'Health Information Bank' I reckon. The
> smart card becomes the health information cheque book.
>
> Smart card technology is on a different stratosphere from when they
> were in Exeter. It's like comparing a 286 with a new 450 PII now.
>
> I can post more on Dodd's 'Health Information Bank' if you want.
>
> Ahmad
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