Another View: Of conference season
It must be conference season: Neil Paul has attended three separate meetings in almost as many weeks. As our GP columnist reflects on each – the EMIS National User Group, a panel on entrepreneurship in healthcare IT, and a BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group meeting – he sees causes for both optimism and concern.
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SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020
SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020 and primary care systems must move to the clinical terminology by the end of 2016
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GPs practices can opt out of care.data
GP practices could take an “opt-out by default” stance to the care.data programme without breaching the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said.
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Emis pulls legacy systems in England
Emis is withdrawing its legacy systems from the English market over the next year because they do not meet the requirements of the new GP Systems of Choice contract.
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GP group does care.data campaign
The Emis National User Group has created an alternative information campaign for practices to advertise the controversial GP extract programme care.data.
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