Interesting Letter John
The date is a bit of a concern. Did MSIA respond to Dr Wooding? If so it clearly failed to stop this insidious practice. It is clearly beyond a joke to have a doctor's access to his or her data restricted as is evident at present in some market leasing software. The letter sent by Dr Wooding talks of not wishing to argue about the ownership of a doctors medical records. The issue of your ownership of your records has been settled by a high court ruling. (Breen v Williams [1996] 186 CLR 71) Patient access to records is an entirely different issue of course Why does the industry, government, GPCG, medical newspapers and the Medical practitioners using affected software seem tread so lightly on your ownership, use and access rights to your electronic records? I think we need to take this to each of our local politicians and divisions asap. Like you I do not want to change software providers each year. I do have and require access to my data and cannot understand the rational or sheer cheek of the few companies who are actually locking or severely restricting some people out of their data. Encryption with keys- Fine. Encryption with no keys is totally unacceptable! Regards James Bishop I think that the definitive document that sums up the view of DoHA towards accessibility of data in GP systems is in the attached note from DoHA to ther MSIA. Regards John Johnston BSc DipSci AIMM MSIA Committee 0408 276 742
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