Special report: Shared records
Sharing records between care settings is starting to become much more commonplace, but is viewing patient and clinical data enough to deliver joined-up care?
Vivienne Raper revisits some of the pioneers of information and record sharing, and examines how they are beginning to use shared records to change how they interact with patients.
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Derby Teaching Hospitals safeguards its EPR with ReStart’s PAS Mirror
Derby Teaching Hospitals safeguards its EPR with ReStart’s PAS Mirror and Business Continuity solution. When Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust needed to protect its core clinical systems against service disruption, it turned to ReStart. ReStart offers business continuity assurance and integration solutions, making sure trusts can keep operating to a high standard during both […]
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John Parry: Working towards a national consent model
Policy, politics and culture are encouraging information sharing; the missing piece is an efficient, scalable and legal consent model, says the clinical director of TPP.
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Cheshire shares records across 80 organisations
Cheshire has gone live with a shared care record that covers acute, primary, council, community, mental health and cancer data across the region using Graphnet’s CareCentric.
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Recovery plan for Child Protection Information Sharing
The Child Protection Information Sharing scheme is in recovery mode as local authorities struggle to deploy the system designed to protect vulnerable children.
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You say you want a revolution…
In Merseyside, health organisations are smashing faxes, finding cheap ways to go digital, and playing with tomorrow’s technology. Ben Heather reports from the iLinks Innovations Conference.
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Twelve million records shared in Merseyside
More than 12 million records have been shared across Merseyside, as an increasing number of health and social services sign-up to share information.
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Coordinate My Care integrates care plans into Emis Web
Urgent care plans for thousands of London’s most vulnerable patients care are now just a click away for almost 1,000 of their GPs.
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Integrated care pioneers ‘struggling and facing IT issues’
The government’s integrated care pioneers have made little progress and are struggling with IT and information governance issues, an official evaluation has shown.
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Birmingham rolls out Your Care Connected
A shared patient record scheme is being rolled out across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull, using Healthcare Gateway technology.
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