On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:45, Peter Machell wrote: > I am quoting a client that is a mixture of GP and other healthcare > providers, for example nutritionists. They want a clinical record > system where records are able to be protected, as in if you are not > the provider that saw the patient you don't have access to the > clinical record, until the provider that 'owns' the record allows you > permission to do so.
In the vast majority of cases it is not in the patient's interest to prevent record access in teh described way - but sometimes it is. Examples I witnessed include allegations of misconduct against another doctor in the same practice, illicit drug use, or sometimes mental health problems. While my own record system allows to encrypt individual records, it is not ready for others to use. What you can do with nearly any other record system though: use a system tray utility that encryots/decrypts from/to clipboard. On Windows, winpttray for example, on Linux KGPG That way, when you enter your record, you select all (Ctrl-A), and hit the configured hotkey for your encryption facility - it replaces the selected text with encrypted ASCII printable encoded text. When you want to read the text next time, you select the encrypted text (Ctr-A), hit the configured hotkey, you are prompted for a passphrase, and after entering it correctly you can see the decrypted text in a popup window Requires minimal setup and skills and works with vitually any software that allows cut-and-paste in text entry widgets. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
