Tim The openEHR and before it GEHR work on legality made it clear to me that a document has no legal status until it is saved in some voluntary manner - just as a correction in a written document has no status as fact (if you contemporaneously correct the document).
Sam > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:08, Thompson, Ken wrote: > >>Do you thing that a document being informally saved by an automated process >>designed to support recovery of the document should be subject to the same >>modification constraints as a formally saved document? > > > I would say that the data is not a formal document until a deliberate > action is made by the creator to commit it as such. > > Does anyone know if there is any existing legal precedent on this? > > Tim > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

