This appeared last week:Our healthcare records outlive us. It’s time to decide what happens to the data once we’re gone. August 7, 2017 6.12am AEST Author: Jon Cornwall Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington Death is inevitable. The creation of healthcare records about every complaint and ailment we seek treatment for is also a near-certainty.Data about patients is a vital cog in the provision of efficient health services. Our study explores what happens to those healthcare records after you die. We focus on New Zealand’s legal situation and practices, but the issue is truly a global one.Previously, healthcare records were held in paper form and stored in an archive. Next came the advent of digital storage in on-site databases. In both of these cases, when you died your records were either shredded or erased, depending on the technology.But it is now increasingly common for healthcare records to be digitised and held in a central repository. They...
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