[...] > At all points NEED TO KNOW > governs access [...] Except that the Need-To-Know paradigm doesn't work very well in healthcare. The provider may not know what she needs to know at the time of the patient encounter. The patient can't possibly correctly decide what her doctor must know in order to be able to make the right decisions (of course, the patient is fully able to decide what she *wants* the doctor to know). Etc.
Medicine is neither the military nor a secret service, literally (it's not mass media either, on the other end of the spectrum). Just a clinician's muttering ... Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
