Sharing the pain
Legal issues, information governance, patient consent; the barriers to information sharing are legion. Good job CCIOs are committed to getting through them. Claire Read reports.
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Birmingham rethinks failed record plan
Plans to establish a Birmingham central care record have been cut back and given to a new organisation, after the region’s GP leaders raised concerns.
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Salting the record
Bradford is one of NHS England’s integrated digital care record exemplars; thanks to a project to create a ‘pooled’ record building on the local use of TPP’s SystmOne. Lis Evenstad took a look.
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Chocks away
Cumbria is on its way to paper-lite using a range of technology approaches, including the implementation of an ‘air-traffic control’ system. Lis Evenstad went to have a look.
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Royal Wolverhampton gets GP records link
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest to give its clinicians direct access to GP records from within its electronic patient record, using the Graphnet CareCentric platform.
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On the buses
In the latest of EHI’s series on information sharing initiatives, Rebecca Todd reports on the Oxfordshire Care Summary.
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How do you do IT?
Liverpool has pioneered information sharing in healthcare, but now it has a strategy to take things to a whole new level. Lis Evenstad reports from the annual iLinks conference.
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Loved by the good
EHI news editor Rebecca Todd visited Southampton to see the Hampshire Health Record in action; and heard it described as the Robin Hood of information sharing projects.
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Avon calling
In the first of EHI’s series on information sharing across healthcare communities, Lis Evenstad visits Bristol to see its Connecting Care programme in action.
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Care.data: charities back info sharing
More than 40 UK medical research charities have launched a campaign to back data sharing in the NHS.
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