A tug of war over LHCREs is underway
When the Local Health and Care Record Exemplars LHCREs were created, the official line is that they would support local direct care and enable population health management and analytics at regional level. But, as Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports, tensions are emerging on whether they should also provide a bridge to a federated care.data-like national data resource.
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Special Report: Shared Care Records
How much progress has been made on shared records, what obstacles remain, and can the exemplars help other areas of the NHS progress? Maja Dragovic investigates.
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NHS England awards £16m to second stealth wave of LHCREs
The three new selected LHCRE sites which have been awarded money are the Share2Care, the Great North Care Record and the South West.
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Southampton Football Club selects BridgeHead for medical image software
The medical team wanted a solution which supported individual and collaborative working when examining and comparing medical images.
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Unified child health record goes live in South West England
The aim was to create a seamless region-wide service which prevented children falling through gaps and to keep track of their movements.
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PRSB publishes standards to make it easier to locate records
The standards ensure that records can be easily found when needed, particularly in an emergency and means patients won’t have to repeat information.
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Orion deploys new national diabetes pathway in Northern Ireland
Following a successful pilot with a small number of nurses, consultants and podiatrists, the service can now be accessed by all diabetes clinicians in Northern Ireland to help better inform the care of more than 100,000 patients.
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NW London Care Information Exchange begins mass recruitment
Imperial begins recruiting patients at scale for open shared portal that puts individuals in control of deciding who can see their medical records.
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System C & Graphnet using FHIR to integrate with new National Record Locator Service
System C & Graphnet Care Alliance’s initial deployment adds locator records for patients who have been referred to Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP).
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New National Locator Service links paramedics to shared care record
The new NHS Digital service enables paramedics and mental health nurses to find out whether the patient they are treating has a mental health crisis plan, by a means of helping inform their treatment.
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