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Originally Posted by Rycharde
So I'd say what the solution has to be is making it entirely private and completely detailed. Sound right?
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In principle, yes. However there would have to be some form of tiered security to control who can access what. Here in the UK the government is slowly uploading everyone's medical records onto a new computer system called the 'spine'. This will offer advances such as a centralised database of every patient's allergies, adverse drug reations, diagnoses etc.
The issue is that over a million people in the UK work for the healthcare system, and every single one of them will have access to the spine database. This means that over 1 in 50 people will have access to any patient's records which can hardly be called private!
I think on the whole it's a good idea though as it means that for example, penicillin (hopefully) won't be given to someone who is allergic. I do however think that only doctors and nurses directly connected with anybody's treatment should have access to anything beyond date of birth, current medication, allergies, adverse drug reactions and next of kin.