[mdlug] A plan to digitize health care - My Apology

[allen]

Is it as cut and dried as that?

The reason I ask is the last time I read about ownership of personal 
data the issue was far from settled and pretty contentious. Or is data 
ownership clearly established for medical data only?

Allen

Dan DeSloover wrote:
> Interesting. The software company does know that the data belongs to the
> doctor and the patients, right?
>
> While the company may have a proprietary interest in database, schema and
> client interface they don't own the data.
>
> Any doctor's office caught in this kind of trap should be able to get a
> data dump (into CSV, HL7) and then immediately switch practice management
> systems.
>