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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:57:23 +0100 > Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Y'know, this may be simplistic but; what's wrong with deciding on a >> universal format of the records and giving each patient their own >> records on a USB stick? > > Patients easily lose their own medication, prescriptions, appointment > cards and even specimen pots - why would a USB stick be any less liable > to be left / stolen / dropped / misplaced? Even if you embedded the > thing in their arm/leg, it'd go missing. > > That's beside problems of whether more technical users can be trusted > not to alter the data . . . . > >> Oh and nobody can hack your records since there's no central database to >> pilfer. > > Oh goodie, single point of failure entrusted to the one point of the > highest individual rate of failure. Chaos. > > Instead of losing several thousand records per government error, we > lose tens of thousands a year, one at a time. Not good. > > Perhaps we should put together an e-mail / letter / report outlining our concerns and send it to the Tory Health Minister. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpTNVgACgkQaggq1k2FJq3u/wCfV6GFVo/Gn8WZWtoPZ+ZbHeeQ MK4An0zXdJOZxhcIrPtDMHkw69FD0SCp =EYE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html