Patients' medical records go online without consent

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Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned.

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Published: 10:20PM GMT 09 Mar 2010

Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities.

But doctors have accused the Government of rushing the project through, meaning that patients have had their details uploaded to the database before they have had a chance to object.


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Doctors will have to seek patient consent to read their electronic medical recordsThe scheme, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will eventually hold the private records of more than 50 million patients.

But it has been dogged by accusations that the private information held on it will not be safe from hackers.

The British Medical Association claims that records have been placed on the
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7408379/Patients-medical-records-go-online-without-consent.html

Almost 50,000 patients a year 'die in hospital while suffering from malnutrition'

Isn't that a RW paper?

know what kind of paper. You don't think it could happen here?

National Health Service?

I suppose anything can happen anywhere. And yes, it's a RW newspaper.

This is a very long list . . . I just snipped a portion:

http://healthnews.mccoypress.net/2009/08/23/health-care-by-the-numbers--part-ii.aspx?ref=rss
U.S. Health Care By the Numbers

<snip>

The Institute of Medicine states medical errors account for at least 100,000 deaths per year.

Others such as Null et al have been more critical asserting that:
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million.
The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million.
The total number of iatrogenic deaths is 783,936 annually

Leape of Harvard estimated that in the United States 180,000 people die each year as a result of iatrogenic injury. The equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every two days.

195,000 people die each year in hospitals due to preventable errors

Other Estimates range from 225,000 – 284,000 deaths
One million error related non fatal injuries yearly
Negligence or errors in diagnosis account for 30-40% of malpractice payments
18 types of errors account for 32,600 deaths and $9.3 Billion in extra costs
Preventable drug related errors in OP’s cost $77 billion yearly
— <snip>

"iatrogenic" is defined as:
A disease, illness, or death due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescribed.

Hospitals are dangerous places to be. Trusting the Torygraph is even more dangerous. It is owned by meglomaniacal twin brothers who have (among other things) spent years trying to turn the island of Sark into their personal fiefdom - and when that failed (by vote of the population in 2008) attempted to destroy the tiny economy by shutting down the businesses they had bought up, putting a quarter of the population out of work. As of late last year, they were still trying - by dint of subterfuge and threat - to gain economic control of the majority of the island, undoubtedly to force their will on it's residents.

yerg.