RE: Warning of major NHS IT overspend

["Owen Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Howe
> Sent: 01 November 2004 10:55
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Warning of major NHS IT overspend
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> Brian Beesley wrote:
> > Why does everything have to be stored centrally?
> It would appear that that is not for anything more operational than the
> fact that the government wants it that way - as has already been pointed
> out, these aren't the patients records, but records about the patient;
> the system appears to wish to establish the fact that these aren't the
> gp's records, but records held at the gp... by removing them and putting
> them in one central and highly data-minable location.

Mineable and mindable, both?

And where the NHS consumes such a large part of the nation's wealth, is
data-mining such a bad idea? Leaving such a wealth of information untapped
might seem to verge on the irresponsible.

Owen