kejn (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kejn) wrote in doranosaurus, |
speaking of paper shuffling and transcribing by hand... you made me think of a thing i saw on the danish news the other week. in denmark all the patients' medical files are going to be digital and placed on the internet from now on. ANY health care professional within the country will be able to access your medical file AND the records of all medication you've ever been prescribed if they have your "personal number" (the scandinavian equivalent of a social security number, but used much more and in all sorts of contexts). that would be 38,000 people (!) around the country able to access some very private information about you, and possibly leaving their computer screens unsupervised so whoever is in their office can take a peek. isn't that scary?
