Britons' confidential medical records sent to India: Report

[OhioChick]

4 Apr 2010, 1850 hrs IST,PTI

LONDON: Under pressure to cut costs, UK's National Health Service is sending millions of patient records and confidential medical notes to India processing, despite the government's pledge that personal information would not be sent overseas, a media report said on Sunday.

It is the first time that databases of names, addresses and NHS numbers of patients have been sent abroad along with private information about medical appointments, The Sunday Times reported.

The NHS managers, under pressure to cut costs, are implementing the changes despite warnings about poor security in some offshore centres.

The report said seven primary care trusts (PCTS) in northeast London, serving more than 1.5 million people, have begun to send patient details overseas.

The databases are administered by about 200 workers in Pune in Maharashtra, the Times report said.

More: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/ites/Britons-confidential-medical-records-sent-to-India-Report/articleshow/5759800.cms

[MadMaddie]

1. This is happening in America already with all of the outsourcing

[SocialistLez]

2. Yep

The race to modernize patient records has already helped India.

http://www.asiaone.com/Business/News/Story/A1Story20100331-207781.html

Too Congress won't pass a law stating the medical information must stay in the United States and all technical work performed on our medical record systems must be performed by American workers...preferably unionized workers.

[northernlights]

3. it won't last, not that it helps

The assholes where I work had their paper in India. Then a few months ago there was a protest down the street a couple blocks and more than half their workers simply stood up and walked out to join it. The protest turned into a riot and a significant number of their employees never came back to work :rofl:

Then the company "woke up" to the fact that India is not terribly stable a country and is right next door to it's mortal enemy Pakistan. It also suddenly dawned on them that both are nuclear powers. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

So they decided to move the paper back the US, somewhere in the midwest I think.

Fucktards never read anything if it's not on the financial pages.