Access to AMD Register

21 September 2012

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I am quite disappointed to see this reply from the Ministry of Health (Access to AMD register 
balanced with safeguards on patient confidentiality, ST 21 September)

A large portion of the lengthy letter was written to justify their current practice. The complaint 
from Ms Krishnan was that the hospital does not know about the existence of the AMD. She was
not asking for the actual content of the AMD to be disclosed, but to know that it had existed. 
This is a simple and sensible requirement.

MOH acknowledged in the closing paragraph that they agree with this suggestion and 
will be implementing it. Why can't the reply from MOH go straight to this essential point?  

It is quite strange that up to now, the hospital is still relying on manual access 
to the AMD register.

Tan Kin Lian