Doctors criticise digital record plan

The government’s plans to introduce digital medical records for all patients from next autumn are far too risky, the family doctors’ association says in the Trouw on Monday.


The aim of the digital records is to reduce medical errors and allow for speedy transfer of information. But doctors say there are still too many bugs in the computer system.

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