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Re: [LUG] MS or Google could hold patient data

 

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:57:23 +0100
Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Y'know, this may be simplistic but; what's wrong with deciding on a 
> universal format of the records and giving each patient their own 
> records on a USB stick? 

Patients easily lose their own medication, prescriptions, appointment
cards and even specimen pots - why would a USB stick be any less liable
to be left / stolen / dropped / misplaced? Even if you embedded the
thing in their arm/leg, it'd go missing.

That's beside problems of whether more technical users can be trusted
not to alter the data . . . .

> Oh and nobody can hack your records since there's no central database to 
> pilfer.

Oh goodie, single point of failure entrusted to the one point of the
highest individual rate of failure. Chaos.

Instead of losing several thousand records per government error, we
lose tens of thousands a year, one at a time. Not good.

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