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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> [Same with shoppers, chatters, etc.]
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> GPs threaten to snub NHS database
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>| The electronic warehouse, dubbed Spine, is part of the NHS's £12bn
>| IT upgrade, which aims to link up 30,000 GPs to nearly 300 hospitals
>| and give patients access to their personal health and care information.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| More than 60% said they feared the system would be vulnerable to
>| hackers and unauthorised access by public officials from outside the
>| NHS and social care.
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Well of course it will be. They're right to be highly skeptical.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6167924.stm
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> Context:
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> Failed NHS project cost $12 billion
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> http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=700
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> Microsoft in the NHS
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>| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
>| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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> http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
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>
> CfH refutes computer failure claims
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>| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
>| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
>| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
>| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
>|
>| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
>| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
>| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
>| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
>| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
> `----
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/
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> Head of Kaiser's digital project quits
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>| The resignation of J. Clifford Dodd, a senior vice president and
>| chief information officer for Kaiser, came four days after another
>| Kaiser employee sent a scathing e-mail to most of the company's
>| 140,000 employees about his concerns over the high-profile
>| technology project, known as HealthConnect.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| In an interview, Deal said cost overruns were common and that data
>| showed the new software system breaking down so frequently that
>| doctors and patients were often left for long periods without
>| access to medical records.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Others worry that digital medical records pose risks to patients'
>| privacy, pointing to cases like that of the Veterans Administration,
>| which lost personal data including medical information on millions
>| of veterans last spring.
> `----
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> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kaiser8nov08,1,4250636.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
> http://tinyurl.com/yxvc22
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>
> our data or your life
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>| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
>| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
>| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
>| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
>|
>| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
>| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
>| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue.
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