On Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:10, David de Bhál wrote: > The view is that the patient is more important than the practitioner in the > whole equation.
Should be. Problem is, as outlined, that the practitioners professional life might depend on integrity and availability of records, e.g. in a litigation case. If you take the control over the record from the practitioner, you might take the practitioner out of the equation completely - "patient heal thyselfe ..." In a non-fault-based non-litigationous environment I'd fuilly agree with your sentiment, but here in Oz I have to think self defense first A compromise would be to leave the practitioner in control of the records, but give the patient (or people designated by the patient) full read-only access (maybe plus a writeable comment area) via Internet if the patient so desires. We are currently experimenting with web access for selected patients, where they can access their records with user name / password combo from anywhere, and annotate the records with comments (which get forwarded to the practitioner by email automatically) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
