Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 7, 2012 @09:40AM from the boy-that-costs-a-ton dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In Britain, where it is custom and practice to charge around £10 for a copy of your medical results, a patient has discovered that his copy will cost him £2,000 because the records are stored on an obsolete system that the current IT systems cannot access. Can this be good for patient care if no-one can access records dating back from a previous filing system? Perhaps we need to require all current systems to store data in a way that is vendor independent, and DRM-free, too?"

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Re:What a fuckup by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-07 11:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'd take Britain's system over here in the US where paramedics check to see if you have a valid insurance card before they check your pulse... and if you are not insured, they just mark "coded" and go on.