Life is simple. Once we physicians know what to ask and why.
Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands +31 252 544896 +31 654 792800 On 05 Mar 2005, at 13:22, Bigpond wrote: > > And that's the problem that will keep the technical people in money for > years to come. Not only must it be feasible it will be demanded by > judges > and courts if the EHR is to ever be truly adopted. Even now we have > rules > that all e-mails where a decision is made must be printed out! > The paperless world has never been to court. > It is feasible of course but complex. Flags are set when pages are > viewed, > there are intricate audit trails (terabytes). The fact that no one is > doing > it yet is that the litigation costs haven't risen high enough to > balance the > need to do it. Once a few specialists are sued for activities that can > not > be supported by the record and they known they were innocent then we > will > see some very interesting changes, either a reappearance of paper > records > (personal) or a new paradigm of image capture. IMHO of course. > > David -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1174 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050305/55b087ca/attachment.bin>
