At the VA, a note is still deletable until it is electronically signed. You can save it and not sign it and still be able to delete it. I do not know the algorithm of signature but it involves a pin-like password that is different from your login. I bet the VistA crowd would know.
-- IV On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:33:23 +0930 Sam Heard <sam.heard at bigpond.com> wrote: >Tim > >The openEHR and before it GEHR work on legality made it clear to me >that a document has no legal status until it is saved in some >voluntary manner - just as a correction in a written document has no >status as fact (if you contemporaneously correct the document). > >Sam > >>On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:08, Thompson, Ken wrote: >> >>>Do you thing that a document being informally saved by an automated >>>process >>>designed to support recovery of the document should be subject to the >>>same >>>modification constraints as a formally saved document? >> >> >>I would say that the data is not a formal document until a deliberate >>action is made by the creator to commit it as such. >> >>Does anyone know if there is any existing legal precedent on this? >> >>Tim >> >>- >>If you have any questions about using this list, >>please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org >> >- >If you have any questions about using this list, >please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
