Re: [GPCG_TALK] Clinical software recommendations

[john hilton]

There is another aspect. The "quality" of medical records varies by many 
orders of magnitude, between practitioners. A GP who is meticulous in the 
recording and upkeep of records, taking care and considerable time, can be 
thwarted by another who fails to record immunisations, important history or 
diagnoses or investigations or by one who records spurious crap. Result is 
that the usefulness of the record as an accurate record is diminished.
A meticulous doctor will be able to put the record to better use in managing 
the patient.
Further, a fully consumer-orientated record (with patient having permissions 
to modify?) will render it effectively useless.
jh
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:50, Mario Ruiz wrote:
>
> It appears that the only reason for the practitioner to own the record
> is purely medico-legal, aka ACD's (ass covering documents).  
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