I know that it is very hard to completely remove (parts of) an electronic
health record, but the law is still the law and we therefore must follow it.
It happens now and then in Sweden that we must remove (parts of) an
electronic health record completely (and not only logically). The removal is
mainly done manually and to a high cost. In Sweden we therefore also need to
record where we send electronic health record data and where we back the
data up.
/Mikael Nystr?m
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Freriks
Sent: den 17 april 2006 08:28
To: openehr-technical at openehr.org
Subject: Re: removal of data
I agree that is very seldom.
For many (technical) reasons it is completely impossible to remove all
information as if it was never written.
for example:
- The information is communicated with others before it has to be removed
- the information is part of an archive on CD-ROM
- the information is indexed somewhere
Laws (as far as I know) cannot force healthcare providers to change the
history of things.
Each healthcare provider has the obligation to document itself.
The law, my personal opinion, most often is written by legal persons.
Therefor what they prescribe is legally correct but many times impossible to
execute.
My solution is to translate the legal terms in a requirement to LOGICALLY
remove the information,
It is there.
But it is not used any longer.
Gerard
