All members of the Rx2000 Institute will have access to the presentations. This approach to bringing quality content to those that cannot attend has been very well received, and it is just one of our efforts to help bridge healthcare's organizational digital divide. Many times consulting practitioners must be able to access patients not on their patient list. My concern would be the trade-off between security and patient care. I don't see how we can allow ourselves to think in terms of trading off patient care against security.
Physicians cover each others patients all the time.
If we set up some barrier that prevents that we have degraded patient care. We have to provide security for the data but the object of the game is still caring for patients. Instead of writing rules that tie people up we need to concentrate on bringing about a cultural change that brings security to the forefront of our thoughts and behavior. The regulations state they do not want to be burdensome to patient care, if I recall correctly. However, you still need an audit trail.