Sunday, June 18, 2006

Registos eletrónicos na medicina

Conforme se refere aqui, "The government will press ahead with plans to put patients' medical records online in spite of complaints about privacy, cost and the slipping timetable, ministers said yesterday". Não. Não é em Portugal. É aqui, "Medical professionals will be able to access "care records" in England as part of a £20bn programme to revamp NHS computer systems". E o actual Ministro da Saúde (de lá), diz "Lord Warner, the minister in charge of reforming the health service, said there was "no question, not a flicker of doubt" that electronic records would be in place by 2010". Os ingleses não falam em choque tecnológico, pôem-no em prática.

E em mais detalhe no mesmo
sítio, "Medical professionals will be able to call up patient details - which could include confidential information such as family medical histories and prescriptions. Eventually, patients will be able to view their own records on the web". Brave new world, dizemos nós.