Yes I know you would not do it but for those of us using the product and considering upgrading it makes a lot of sense and I do not think they would be so stupid as to leave themselves open to deliberately and illegally going against the very detailed signed agreements/documents they insist are sent before doing the trial conversion. The agreement does not allow de-identfified data to be used in any way. It relates purely to the testing of data send to see if there are any problems with upgrading.
I do not expect you to accept such a signed agreement but as I said for those using the product it would save endless headaches before they upgrade. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horst Herb Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2005 7:50 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] SQL Server Express webcast On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:23, Dr John Van Dyck wrote: > Why not sent the data to HCN as requested (with proper disclaimers) and get > them to do a trial conversion to pinpoint any problems before even > attempting the conversion? Personally, I'd rather go back to paper before I would ever consider letting a company known to have had commercial data exchange (even if "de-identified") with the pharmaceutical industry. HCN is a shareholder company, isn't it? They are not bound by ethical constraints - they are in fact obliged by LAW to do ANYTHING within legal limits to maximize shareholders value. I think most of us would agree that current legal limits don't intersect much with our professional ethics ... Meaning that even operating entirely within the law, they could act very much to the detriment of our patients and even *have to* if this is both profitable and legal. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
