OT 'Full Clinical Record' systmonline

Probably. And my phone was then always engaged.

ISTR that I used freeserve. You used to pick a free CD (I am sure it was CD not DVD) to install it on your computer at most shops in town.

But by that time my land line was probably not used much as I had a mobile phone (yes a Nokia) with inclusive minutes. Before that it used to cost me £1 when a call was connected for 1 minute and 50p per 30 seconds after the first minute.

And CLID arrived on mobile phones in around 1996/7? Or became available to my network/phone. Boy did that cause some trouble

Phone rings and displays "Helen calling".

I answer and say "Hi gorgeous, what time is your bloody Mother going out tonight as I am going to bang you all over the house"

The reply was "This is her Mother, I am calling to tell you that Helen is ill" and then put the phone down on me.

Ah yes, back in the days of fast 300 bits per second connections.

Pamela presented the following explanation :

As the patient? That would be interesting..

Would that be something you would need to ask for?

It requires specialist skill to interpret the pictures from MRI

NT

You could (fairly) easily set it up without a CD. The CD also "branded" your browser and email/news client so your home page was Freeserve and it had a load of bookmarks and other stuff you didn't want.

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com explained on 30/09/2018 :

Yes, I am aware of that. Mine have already been interpreted by the specialists, but I would still be interested in looking - assuming that is possible?

It happens that Max Demian formulated :

From memory, all you needed was the phone number to dial and a username password for Win3.1 to feed in.

I saw my MRI. None of us made much sense of it by looking at it though.

NT

The viewer program comes with the images on the CD without asking.

Just apply to the hospital for your scan data. You will probably get a CD. It should now be free.

Pamela was thinking very hard :

Thanks, I will make some enquiries..

Quite, Had one done for back problems, and was arranged very quickly indeed, using a private sub contractor to the NHS. Results took ages to get to my GP. But it wouldn't have been classified as urgent.

IIRC, it's one of the problems with the current medical records system. I don't think it can store such images. When I went to my GP for the results of mine, she had the pics on paper.

Pamela laid this down on his screen :

I have just rung the MRI department and yes they can supply the images, no cost, just a matter of my filling in an emailed Subject Access Request form and providing photo ID.

I got this a few years ago. I would say it is well worth having for anyone who is even mildly curious.

It has a relatively full history of recent test results and consultation notes. My yearly blood tests seem to measure many things which are detailed.

These notes go back to childhood but become more randomly sporadic the further back they go.

Also I seem to have been diagnosed with "serious" conditions that don't appear to exist and that I was unaware of. My suspicion is that historically doctors notes were not rigorously correct.

I also note that the dates of some entries are wrong by decades.

It doesn't seem to include hospital details beyond letters sent to the GP detailing procedures. Hopefully they will link this stuff in soon.

You may want to consider if you want all medical images they hold.

Usually, each scan is interpreted by a radiologist who writes a brief report on what they detect for your doctor and you could ask for these too.

Don't be surprised if your request goes first to the legal department. As soon they get a medical records request, hospitals think they are going to be sued.

Possibly someone had one of the most boring jobs in the world trying to decipher doctors handwritten notes on paper records and entering the information into the computer.

I had two visits to a consultant to test the pressure in my eyes (he poked sticks into my eyeballs) and no computer in sight. The consultant was still keeping paper records. This was in a new private hospital where my treatment/test was contracted out by the NHS.

I assume that if the record keeping at the GP surgery, hospital etc. is still in paper form you are unlikely to be able to see it in systemonline

Pamela formulated the question :

There were three tick boxes for reason for access - complaint/claim, personal use, other. I ticked the personal use.

Crikey. I had this test done some 50 years ago, and a machine used a jet of air, and measured the deflection it caused (IIRC) Not a stick.