abhishek kumar

April 12th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

Medical Information acts of UK differed

Medical information security is a subject in which I’ve worked on and off for over a decade. It’s highly topical right now: the UK government is building a national database of medical records, a project which many doctors oppose (half of all GPs have said they won’t upload their patients’ data). Ministers have given a guarantee of patient privacy, but gone ahead with collecting data anyway; GPs and NGOs are skeptical about it as this new law makes the information of the patients very pulverable and any one can take a look at them. The effect shall be mostly seen on the people living in UK of not the same origin, and mostly Indians and Chinese people will have to burn with it, so shall the medical professionals of Indian origin.

In order to protect the rights of the various patients now a unique Medical ID has been developed by which

  • A medical ID can speak for a patient in a medical emergency if he or she is not able to communicate or have the documents to support the claim.
  • It can protect a patient from harmful medical errors that could be made when admitted to a hospital and hence reduce the % error margin in hospitals.
  • A vital description of medical facts of a patient helps to ensure appropriate and timely care shall in realizingly the data of patients with perfect privacy.

On the other note the ID has been in the form of a stylish necklace so that people can wear at all places especially the teenagers and young peoples who are very much concerned about the style statement, this ID acts as an Medical Jewelry.

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