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:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" by Obfuscant · 2012-11-07 10:32 · Score: 1, Troll

With no care at all? That claim does not reflect reality.
Yes, that claim does not reflect reality. Until we get the appointed board that controls the costs of Obamacare by deciding who is worth getting treated and who isn't.
By the way, cancer isn't treated in ERs. Funny how an ER doctor wouldn't treat it, huh?