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Medical Record up on NHS Spine...
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Just saw the debate on the BBC site:
Government plans to put together the system which will hold records for 50m people in England, everyone will have a computer-based care file with basic information such as medication and allergies, drawn from GPs' records. You can opt out, but only if you can show holding them will cause substantial mental distress.
What do you think? Would you be happy to have your records up online? Do the concerns of confidentiality, security and privacy outweigh the benefits of doctors having a more efficient system and modernising the NHS? Or is it just a huge waste of money?
Government plans to put together the system which will hold records for 50m people in England, everyone will have a computer-based care file with basic information such as medication and allergies, drawn from GPs' records. You can opt out, but only if you can show holding them will cause substantial mental distress.
What do you think? Would you be happy to have your records up online? Do the concerns of confidentiality, security and privacy outweigh the benefits of doctors having a more efficient system and modernising the NHS? Or is it just a huge waste of money?
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It's obviously a good idea for A&E staff to be able to quickly tell if someone has allergies, otherwise the person could inadvertently be poisoned.
But if its for anyone and everyone to see, then I'm totally against it. There are drugs that I've been on that I don't want employers to know about.
But lets be honest, I bet there are plenty of underpaid hospital staff etc who will sell details to high paying corporations who as usual have enough money in reality to get access to pretty much whatever information they want :rolleyes:
EDIT: to try and make it make sense.
Did I miss a news story?
... because medical records are so secure now...
And I seem to remember it cost a stupid ammount of money to implement and the guys that implemented it warned against possible problems...
There *is* an issue about security of the information as with any IT system but the media are reporting that anyone can have access to all of the information and that just isn't true. I already have access to the spine but I couldn't see what drugs Kermit has been prescribed and nor could I tell you where he had been sent for any treatment.