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Digital medical records get green lightFriday 20 February 2009 A parliamentary majority on Thursday voted in favour of introducing a centralised digital medical record system, reports ANP news agency. Under the scheme known as EPD, doctors and other healthcare providers will be connected to a central computer system which will enable them to access medical information about patients. MPs agreed yesterday that joining the network, which is expected to be up and running by the spring of 2010, will be compulsory for medical staff but patients can opt out of the system. Patients who wish to access their own medical files will only be able to do so with the permission of the doctor treating them, MPs decided yesterday, Health minister Ab Klink told MPs he will do everything to ensure the privacy of patients. Earlier this week he said that hackers have been asked to find loopholes in the system and make sure that access to individual files is properly secure. See too: © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
And who guarantees that other parties such as employers, banks etc do not have access to these records? Why would they not be interested? This is not an IT nightmare, this is a privacy nightmare. But dutch people never seem to care about that... By Waaahsabi | February 20, 2009 9:56 AM isn't this just a small part of the "grand design" that we all are going to live in the next years: the new mondial order masterminded by the bilderbergers? By hash | February 20, 2009 1:44 PM The illiberal mindset of the current ruling class is once again proved. Glad I opted out of this Big Brother system. The end of benign government is plainly in sight. By Cassandra Troy | February 20, 2009 4:19 PM Well, maybe the option to where the bar code is inked into your skin will be up to you. Know where mine would go. By Michael | February 22, 2009 5:10 AM |
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There is absolutely no reason why as paying consumers of medical services that we can not at all time have access to our records. What if the doctor who is treating the patient makes a mistake? Of course they will then not allow access. This is ridiculous to not give patients rights to what they have paid for.
There should also be a system in place for patients to be able to fix error's in the records.
By Quest | February 20, 2009 8:15 AM