On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:15:12 +0100, David Brown wrote:
>As a matter of interest how secure is your surgery? In my experience I am pretty sure that at least three quarters of all surgeries have their paper-based patient notes stored in less secure areas than on the PC.
How many times do we have to repeat this:
To gain access to paper records, you shimmy up the drain pipe, you
break and enter and then you have little time to browse 100s of records
to get the one that is juicy from just one surgery. You then have to
make an escape if the police are not there already.
With electronic records, you sit in your favourite armchair drinking a
beer whilst your trawling scanner that you fed with key words does the
job 24 hours a day giving you access to millions of records and low
probability of anyone ever finding out.
These are fundamental differences not to be dismissed so casually.
If I were one of the 40,000 patients whose records you had access to
without my permission, I would sue you, sue the doctor, sue the
multi-fund and sue the DoH taking you all to the cleaners :-)
Ahmad
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