AW: [ RadSafe ] Central Dose registry

[Herren, Roy WS.]

How do these various national registries differentiate between people with the same first and last names, i.e. do they have a national identification number, etc?  Presuming the use of a unique identification number, how is the number kept confidential?  Do most US facilities utilize workers Social Security numbers, or do they have a unique in-house identification numbering system?  Is there a US governmental organization that consolidates information from the various private Dosimetry Corporations and public institutions that have their own Dosimetry programs, and maintains a national registry?

Roy Herren
Physical Science Technician
Radiation Safety Branch of the Radiology Department
Veterans Affairs Medical Center San Francisco, CA
 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:49 AM
To: Rainer.Facius at dlr.de; sandyfl at earthlink.net; beeslar at sabs.co.za
Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] Central Dose registry

Rainer
Thank you for the link.  It is interesting to see
exposure studies from other countries.

--- Rainer.Facius at dlr.de wrote:

> Frikkie and all:
> 
> In Germany the Federal Office for Radiation
> Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz BfS)
> <http://www.bfs.de/bfs/Impressum> 
> (http://www.bfs.de/bfs?setlang=en
> <http://www.bfs.de/bfs?setlang=en> ) maintains a
> nationwide registry where occupational exposures of
> all radiation workers - since 2003 including aircrew
> - are filed for decades.
> 
> Regards, Rainer
. . .

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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