Health records, Oppo policy and VRM

WRITTEN ON July 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Smart Healthcare is carrying an article by me about health records, opposition policy and VRM:

This isn’t a rerun of 1979. It’s not about public sector versus private sector. It’s whether such services should be provided by monopolies or devolved to individuals served by a new breed of companies dedicated to working on their behalf and structured in a manner to breed maximum trust.

The Times may have misunderstood the crucial point. Let us hope the Tories haven’t.

Doesnt take comments; youre welcome to leave any here.

2 Responses to “Health records, Oppo policy and VRM”

Ideal Gov administrator wrote on July 23rd, 2009 1:31 am :

Ian mailed to say

My only different conclusion might be that GPs are in a good position to act as the trusted patient data repository you describe 🙂

Guy Herbert wrote on July 24th, 2009 9:14 pm :

Whereas Prospect is carrying a piece by the chair of Dr Foster Intelligence, revealing such concerns as an irrational disorder, and people who purport to care about personal autonomy as selfish murderous wreckers:

Smarter use of public service statistics can save lives as well as money. But anxious civil libertarians want to stop the state sharing our personal records. They must not succeed.

His concern is entirely altruistic of course; and that magazine’s subtle civic republicanism offers a wholly respectable intellectual position, of which this is a coherent and humane exposition. It is only my neurosis that makes me read it as crass technocratic utilitarianism.