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

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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Just store it in the cloud

[Anonymous Coward]

That'll fix all the issues. London has fog, too, so the clouds are even easier to access.