On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:53:28AM +0100, Thomas Beale wrote: >>> entered by a physician or nurse wrongly using patient A's EHR). There >>> might be other ways it could get there, but in openEHR, if the info was >>> put in record A, there is no way to know it was meant for somewhere else.
>> Well, a common scenario would be a scan of a discharge >> letter being attached to the wrong patient. > that's the same: information being entered in a normal way for patient > A, when the information happens to be for patient B. You miss the point: A scan in this scenario is identifiable to belong to a patient different than the one it's attached to hence it's a breach of privacy. So it's not "the same" since, yes, there IS a "way to know it was meant for somewhere else". Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
