Comments on: We now don’t trust government with our private details.

By: Ideal Gov administrator

Ideal Gov administrator — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:51:00 +0000

Right on, S Erik Skoug. Altho your comment is something of a commercial I’ve approved it because it’s on-topic and interesting. [Where is NH? Is that international standard notation for "not Hambledon", ie somewhere in the rest of the world?]

I’ve looked at this health record registry thingy. It seems quite sensible. Well, a load more sensible than the UK’s Connecting for Health anyway.

It costs 20 US&A dollars to register and 10 US&A dollars a year. This is sod all for those paying in a hard currency such as UK sterling (unless you pay via PayPal which exists in an ecstatic parallel universe of exchange rates based on a non-imploding dollar).

So on this basis we could have person-centric health records for 50m people in the UK for UKL500m up front and UKL250m/year. Perhaps S. Erik Skoug can do us a bulk discount?

Most of our index details are now public domain anyway, floating around on disks in NH places like Swansea and Iowa.

By: S. Erik Skoug

S. Erik Skoug — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:42:22 +0000

Right on ! You can’t trust Government but neither can you trust hospitals and doctors offices with your personal health information.

I would like to make you aware of the
http://www.HeatlhRecordRegistry.com

This is the ONLY system where a personal health record is absolutely, totally secure.

The HealthRecordRegistry.com service is based on the Scandinavian regulations for the protection of personal information, the strictest in the world. The software has been developed here in the United States.

All the information is de-personalized. That means that no connection can be made between a personal health record and the person whose record it is.
There is no name, no address, no telephone number, social security number or any other information that can tie the record to an individual. The record is absolutely, totally secured.

Access to the personal health record over the Internet is with a 10 digit alpha-numeric code that a person who registers receives from us through the U.S. mail.

This is just a few central details about the
http://www.HealthRecordRegistry.com service.
Have a look to see how it functions, including
how emergency personnel can use it.

S. Erik Skoug

By: alex

alex — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:40:11 +0000

Now a new contender for the private sector data mis-management award

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7147704.stm

2007 is shaping up to be quite a year

Perhaps there should be a ” ceremony “

By: Ruth Kennedy

Ruth Kennedy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:27:27 +0000

Actually I am amazed that it’s only 62% of people who think that their personal data being held by government departments is at risk. That suggests that, despite every family with children under 16 being affected, there’s a good number of people who haven’t taken in what’s happened at HMRC (and elsewhere).

By: Ben Toth

Ben Toth — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:42:40 +0000

In health and social care the time is rapidly approaching for the growth of personal health records. There are many issues with this approach. But it gets one thing right – it puts the data subject in control of their own data.

By: AndreY

AndreY — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:20:18 +0000

I also don’t believe in my government!!! They only follow their own goals not the people goals