> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mary Hawking
> Sent: 26 September 1998 08:41
> To: Ahmad Risk
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: GP nets
>
>
Big Snip
> *Is* there an organisational means of ensuring security in a hostile
> environment? Isn't the main question that of access rights? Once that
> has been agreed (not only between the profession and the DOH, but also
> with the other stakeholders, such as, dare I suggest, patients?), the
> means of enforcing it could be considered - *not* before!
> Mary
>
The issue of access rights is, IMHO, all. If we refuse access to the records that are on our systems (which are not owned by the
secretary of state, he owns the paper they are not printed on) then what can they do about it?
Unless you put the access in place and actually allow the connections to be made, or the data to be sucked out of your system into
another central record holding area, then you have control. I would plead with the list to be as vocal as possible when the time
comes in stopping the implementation of the 24 hour access to the EPR. Indeed, let's not get it set up in the first place. The BMA
are already wavering. NHSnet has lots of uses for us, one of th4em is NOT to let our patients records be available 24hrs a day with
appropriate access rights.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk
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