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The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number.
This is common sense
The state’s clinical information sharing bill appears to be common sense to me (‘‘Planned health database ‘trashes privacy’’’, The Sunday Age, 6/12) .
Whenever you enter hospital for a procedure, you are required to fill out lengthy admission forms that ask you extensive information about past illnesses and procedures and when they occurred as well as current medications. The older you get, the more extensive that list will be.
If the information was available on a database it would save a lot of time and effort on both the patient and the person collecting the data, apart from increasing the accuracy and reliability of the information collected.