[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 10:19 on 27/11/98
about "RE: NHS Net SMTP problems are being worked on":
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>OK so there are about ten, so what was the argument and is it really
afected
>by 10 out of 30,000 GP's having networks at home?
The argument was that _even_ if a GP's computer at home is networked
rather than shared by other family members...
part of the security needs for GPNet and therefore properly a charge
on the security budget of GPNet is to provide the same secured
access to other family members as to the GP.
that this is of minimal cost, given that the GP should have a
connection from home and that the connection time on GPNet is not an
individually identifiable expense
that GPs may quite reasonably elect to go home at 1800 and not
depart for work until 0800, and therefore may need access to pateint
records in order to maintain the highest standards, during th margin
hours of their co-op and the latter part of eg Satruday mornings
that GPs who wish to do some of their work at home should not be
prevented from doing so effectively, nor should they be barred from
being at home at lunchtime, but still able to work with all practice
records
If GPs have networks at home, then the security problems are
reduced, but not abolished.
We are heading for the pervasive network, for all the world, and I
do not see why anyone as clever as trefor wants to build a network
which requires one to go to a particular place in order to do
things.
I am at home, I have just referred a patient I saw yesterday to the
new chest pain clinic, I don't want to stay at the practice waiting
for people to be unengaged, nor leave jobs for that much longer. Of
course, if we had networked booking I could have done it when I got
home from the branch that day, or as a background activity in a gap
in surgery today. It would not have been more efficient to
delegate,, for various reasons.
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