Connecting Care has more MIG users ‘than any other interoperability programme’
In May there were 37,500 user views in the MIG, which gives staff from 24 health and care organisations access to records, end of life care plans and other clinical documentation.
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Practical tips for creating an integrated digital care record from Connecting Care
Large-scale IDCR projects are critical to the care integration agenda; and more than 60 are underway up and down the country. Yet these projects take time and work. Fast-track yours with tips from the successful Connecting Care Programme.
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FHIR spreads to Bristol as Connecting Care embraces open standard
Bristol City Council is using a Care Connect FHIR API to link its substance abuse management system with the city’s shared care record programme.
Interoperability

Andy Kinnear: finds inspiration
Family, national figures, colleagues, patients. All can be sources of inspiration, and the NHS needs that in tough times, writes Andy Kinnear.
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Andy Kinnear: has writer’s block
Our columnist can think of nothing to talk about. Except for the exemplars. Or the Wachter Review. Or Salford. Or professionalism. Or Europe. Or new developments at the BCS. Or pies…
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Andy Kinnear: It’s only ever about the people
Meet some of the people behind Bristol’s Connecting Care project. The ones who make it all worthwhile. And remember; all worthwhile things are ultimately about the people.
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Andy Kinnear: All in IT together
Andy Kinnear, the new chair of BCS Health and one of the driving forces behind Bristol’s Connecting Care project, joins Digital Health’s roster of regular columnists with a reflection on 25 years in healthcare IT; and a sense of optimism about its future.
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Andy Kinnear new head of BCS Health
The high-profile leader of Bristol’s Connecting Care shared records programme, is to become the new head of the British Computer Society’s Health Group.
Health CIO

EHI Awards 2016 entries open
Entries are now open for the EHI Awards 2016, the only dedicated healthcare IT awards in the UK.
News

EHI Awards 2015: Connecting Care wins
A shared care record scheme in the South West of England was the overall winner of the EHI Awards 2015, held in London last night.
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