All,
Not that I enjoy putting this kind of message on a forum. Recently friends had a rather poor experience. To keep it short be very careful with what you are saying at a doc practice and be aware if you are hospitalized....
- They rent servers at a pharmacist association the ofac. Some servers are in Zurich / backups and some in Geneva.
- The storage period for each files is of 20 years. That means your data will hang around the country for 20 years...
- They do not give back medical files to patients as they state that it is their files and not patients' files.
Archives can cost a lot so why doing this? Here are the answers we received around Geneva.
- for hospital publications
- for insurance purposes, this is not correct as patients cannot sue if they have not got the medical file anymore.
- simply useless and put patients confidentiality at high risks
So Sorry and be very cautious...
