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Are there countries which have universal healthcare, and health care data is not stored already at a centralized place? This is not new at all. At least definit
by ruszki 3y ago
Are there countries which have universal healthcare, and health care data is not stored already at a centralized place? This is not new at all. At least definitely not in Europe.
- lucianbr 3y agoRomania has universal healthcare, if pathetic, and health care data is likely not stored at all, and in any case not at a centralized place. And we're definitely in Europe, the EU even. Admittedly, this may be a bit besides the point. Still, I think the universality of your assertion is based mostly on thinking that the world is made only of a handful of "important" countries.
- ruszki 3y agoQuestion marks mean something. Definitely not assertions.
- graemep 3y agoA lot of UK NHS patient data is stored by GPs who are private sector contractors and do not use NHS systems. I do not know the details - I have worked with medical systems handling NHS data a bit but not the details of what is stored where and how it is transferred between systems. I do recall some news stories about GPs not cooperating with the NHSs push to a centralised system because of privacy concerns - articles on The Register IIRC.
- ruszki 3y agoGood point! But I highly doubt that they really care about privacy, but how easy would be to find another doctor.