But the tragedy is that if you do not have the dongle you are confined to
the surgery!

Imagine not being able to do internet banking if you did not have a dongle,
or your mail etc. This, to me, is the great tragedy of the PKI system as we
have it. It only says that you are in a particular location. The location
cert came as a result of pressures to have the administrator or practice
manager send claims to HIC.

You are still confined to a place - the old idea of a phone, for example,
being attached to a place rather than, now, a (hand)phone belongs to a
person.



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On Behalf Of Dr Hugh Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:59 AM
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This is an important point.
HIC were obsessed with getting GP's to do something that would save the 
HIC money  - so much so that our clinic got set up with individual PKI 
keys and usb dongles and the HIC staffperson didn't think it was 
necessary to arrange for a Location Certificate.
Of course, a location certificate is the one to use if you are sending 
clinical information securely.

If the HIC had worked from the start to enable better clinical 
communications, then we would all be on board by now.

Andrew Patterson wrote:

>I guess the question is, is any form of PKI certificate
>that carries with it some real legal responsibility for its
>use acceptable to GP's at the current moment?? Or
>is that something for the future.. should we be setting
>our sights on just deploying some simple, no legal
>hassle secure email infrastructure??
>  
>

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