Joe’s view: of Patient Online
Joe McDonald wrote his own emergency medical record onto his phone four years ago; now he can access his GP’s detailed coded record via a smartphone app.
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Joe’s view of lava lamps (and the Great North Care Record)
Joe McDonald says the NHS is like a lava lamp: constantly changing in response to political heat. But healthcare economies are increasingly looking to create shared card records that instead focus on the patient.
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Joe’s view: of the clinical software usability survey
Joe McDonald explains why Digital Health and the CCIO Network are running a survey of usability of electronic patient records – and urges all those who want better software to take part.
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Joe’s view: of wearables
Thanks to his Apple Watch, Joe McDonald can sit on a yacht in Turkey and receive text messages from his mother’s kettle in Newcastle. But, he suggests, it’s vulnerable people and patients who should be wearing the watch.
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Joe’s view of choice
Joe McDonald has been to Croatia. Where his yacht lacked the promised wi-fi. Which made him think of his first stethoscope. Which brought his thoughts back to NHS IT.
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Joe’s view: the price of interoperability
A miserable trip to the WOMAD festival – and its toilets – got Joe McDonald thinking about pricing models for interoperability services.
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Joe’s view: of online GPs flying EasyJet
On a recent trip to London, Joe McDonald found himself using an online GP service; and realised it worked on the EasyJet model. Can the NHS manage to adopt this kind of innovation?
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Joe’s view: of identity
Joe McDonald is forever coming across new ways to prove his identity and thinks it is about time that the NHS got into the same business.
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Joe’s view: An SCR iPhone app?
Apple’s latest operating system comes with an emergency medical screen for users to fill in. Joe McDonald wonders why it doesn’t link to the Summary Care Record; or even a detailed care record.
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Joe’s view: of powering up competition
Joe McDonald’s festive column could also be called “my Christmas tree has a train in it.” Or “this year the gingerbread helipad is go.” But it’s all about healthcare IT, really.
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