GOOGLING YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS
GOOGLING YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS
There has been a lot of discussion nationally about your GP doctor in the surgery computerising your medical records and then making them available to you- and who else?
The Conservative party have proposed allowing the public to choose who would hold their electronic health records. Under the proposals, NHS patients would choose providers such as Google to be the holder of their records. The troubled multi-million pound effort to create a single, secure patient record database for the NHS would be scrapped.
Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, saying: "We 100 per cent support the principle of putting patients in more control of their health as long as the IT system used is flexible, safe, and cost-effective, and moves us more quickly towards e-health and e-consultations."
PROBLEMS OF CONFIDENTIALITY
Please read the Terms & Conditions of GoogleMail where you sign away all rights:-
"Information that you provide – When you sign up for a Google Account or other Google service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information, which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information that you submit under your account with information from other Google services or third parties, in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information."
A suggestion is to use the electronic personal medical record onto a 'credit card’ system, which is password protected, and capable of being updated at any visit to the GP surgery. You can be seen by any doctor or hospital and you can decide whether to hand over your card to be read on a PC (personal computer).
Dr Martin Harris
Private GP in London Tel 020 8209 2401
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Written by Dr Martin Harris, Doctor and Mohel for Jewish Circumcision Clinic in London Bris Mila Brit Milah.
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