About those centralised data stores. I would be very reticent to allow *any* primary storage facility for any of the patients data that I have responsibility for be kept/held by anyone else on my behalf. I dont mean a subset or extract held by another for some useful purposes that might benefit patient care, I mean the principle clinical package app being hosted on an internet based website/portal (eg asp or php app run over the net).
I presume I am not alone here? A number of reasons leap to mind: 1) access without broadband connection (ie when to$$tra is down - and i doubt that kind of app would run over dialup acceptably), and 2) _security_ being the 2 biggest issues as well as "possession and ownership of the records". If the model of centralised "hosted" apps is proposed one might be tempted to think data storage for say a whole GPs data is best managed by someone else to get around the whole web services technological inadequacy of small to medium sized gps/specialists business thingo. How would everyone feel having their data "hosted" offsite over an internet based application (even if security could be largely - it will never be completely- satisfied)? Would anyone do it...be vocal... JD -- ================================================= dr john dooley mbbs frcpa aka "ron" _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
