Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Beale
Christopher Feahr wrote: Thomas, Thank you for the detailed comments. You mentioned WHO as a possible world health information authority, but have they done anything like this? actually I have to admit I was being a bit facetious suggesting WHO, but then again, not sure how good the US-UN

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-10 Thread Tim Churches
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 11:17, Thomas Beale wrote: we should always keep in mind this point, as a benchmark of privacy management of elecrnic patient information - from the patient's point of view, if they see their information escaping more easily than it does now (due to beig stuck in

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-09 Thread Thomas Beale
Christopher Feahr wrote: Thomas, You have described the situation succinctly with your statement: My suspicion is that the gov has documented HIPAA as well as it can and is letting the healthcare community tell it what it said. I sense that our security experts are fairly happy with the HIPAA

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-08 Thread Sam Heard
To: lakewood at copper.net; openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach Thomas, This sounds workable to me. If I am understanding you correctly, we need one (and only one??) registry in which anyone, anywhere (who is authorized, of course) could look up a patient

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-08 Thread Denis Nosworthy
Service -Original Message- From: Tim Churches [mailto:tc...@optushome.com.au] Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 06:49 To: Sam Heard Cc: Christopher Feahr; lakewood at copper.net; openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: RE: Distributed Records - An approach On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 06:06, Sam Heard

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-08 Thread lakew...@copper.net
at swsahs.nsw.gov.au; 'Tim Churches' tchur at optushome.com.au; Sam Heard sam.heard at bigpond.com Cc: Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com; lakewood at copper.net; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach Identification

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-07 Thread Thomas Clark
at hcsystems.com; norbert Lipszyc irl at club-internet.fr; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach the control issue is an interesting one. In the US, it is generally acknowledged that the patient owns the information

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-07 Thread Thomas Clark
at openehr.org Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:13 AM Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach Thomas, Your points are certainly well taken regarding qualified legal assistance. WEDI-SNIP (http //www.wedi.org/snip/) is where the bulk of the discussion is taking place regarding what

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-07 Thread Christopher Feahr
; Christopher Feahr chris at optiserv.com Cc: Thomas Clark lakewood at copper.net Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach Hi Chris, Unfortunately the uncertainty in the HIPAA environment at this time is sufficient to cause large Providers, e.g., Kaiser

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-07 Thread lakew...@copper.net
; lakewood at copper.net; openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: RE: Distributed Records - An approach I have been reading these threads with interest over the last few days and I think the majority of the comments are extermely value and add

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-06 Thread norbert Lipszyc
: Distributed Records - An approach Thomas, This sounds workable to me. If I am understanding you correctly, we need one (and only one??) registry in which anyone, anywhere (who is authorized, of course) could look up a patient and determine which region had master control at the moment over his

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-06 Thread Thomas Clark
: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:23 AM Subject: Re: Distributed Records - An approach The remarks of Christopher Feahr are very adequate, but they overlook the fact that in many areas, patients will have the decision as to where they want their records to be kept (trusted third parties for example

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-05 Thread lakew...@copper.net
Hi All, With a background in fault tolerant computing I have a built-in penchant for distributed files that are exact/backup copies of a master. Works wonders for financial transactions. I don't believe that this model fits EHRs especially since one can conceive of parallel, e.g., close

Distributed Records - An approach

2003-08-05 Thread Christopher Feahr
- From: lakew...@copper.net To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:11 AM Subject: Distributed Records - An approach Hi All, With a background in fault tolerant computing I have a built-in penchant for distributed files that are exact/backup copies of a master