On Thursday 07 December 2006 12:41, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > At present the guidelines from HIC does not specify we can communicate in > an unsecure manner if patient agrees. So with your thinking, if some of my > patients give permission (a large number will), can I send their data / > records electronically to another Doctor in an unsecure manner ?
A tleast I do. Don't really care what the HIC thinks it has to say about it, or the RACGP for that matter. The data belongs to the patient. It is their life, their health, their privacy. As long asI am satisfied that they are making a well informed decision understanding possible consequences, I respect their decision. If a specialist needs a signed dead tree copy for HIC purposes, why, I simply print it out and give it to the patient as well - then thespecialist can mothballl it in a box womewhere and never needs to retyrieve it unless he gets a HIC audit, so no complex filing / retrieval necessary, just roughly chronologic stacking of all paper. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
