Health and care professionals invited to help define joined-up care info
The Professional Record Standards Body is running the survey to help determine what core information needs to be shared in local health and care records.
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Great North Care Record selects Cerner to deliver shared records
The aim is to connect patient information across the North East and North Cumbria with work expected to begin in spring 2019.
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Thames Valley and Surrey LHCRE picks Graphnet for regional shared record
The new £12.5 million, seven-year contract will focus on building on and joining up existing shared care records for 3.8m citizens across Surrey, the Thames Valley and Buckinghamshire.
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Hancock calls for more genomic counsellors to explain DNA technology
Speaking at The Royal Society event today, Matt Hancock’s call for more counsellors will form part of the National Genomics Healthcare Strategy.
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Fiona Caldicott appointed first statutory National Data Guardian for health
Dame Caldicott was appointed national data guardian for health in 2014 to ensure the public can trust their health data is used appropriately.
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Thousands of GPs risk breaching data protection laws in new vaccine data system
The new system uses a process that copies, transfers and stores the whole GP database, rather than the minimal data required to update vaccinations data.
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Results and referrals herald the next stage of the Dorset Care Record
Radiology results as well as pathology reports and referrals are now included on the shared record which is part of the Wessex LHCRE.
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The purpose of LHCREs has always been clear – if you were paying attention
For Ewan Davis, the recent reported annoyance over the purpose of local health and care record exemplars (LHCREs) is misplaced – he argues that it was always the intention for LHCREs to enable a national data resource. He also believes that such a resource is necessary and valuable. But he suggests it will only be possible if changes are made and the lessons of the past heeded.
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Swindells says GDEs must not be “digital havens surrounded by paper”
Speaking at the ‘Empowering people in a digital world’ conference on 13 February, Matthew Swindells discussed how technology fits into the Long Term Plan.
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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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