Two years since they were introduced, are we liking LHCREs?
Two years since they were launched, Gary Birks, general manager, UK and Ireland at Orion Health, reflects on England’s LHCRE programme.
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NHS ‘risks repeat of care.data in talks to commercialise medical records’
Secretive NHS talks to discuss the potential to commercialise 65 million patients’ records risked jeopardising patient trust, Professor Joe McDonald said.
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LHCREs ‘essential’ for better patient care in ambulance service, CIO says
Working with LHCREs has the potential to transform the way paramedics treat patients, according to Ross Fullerton, CIO of London Ambulance Service.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight CHIE to select Orion Health
The decision replaces Graphnet’s CareCentric software, which has been the vendor for the shared record system since it began in 2003.
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Thames Valley and Surrey LHCRE picks Graphnet for regional shared record
The new £12.5 million, seven-year contract will focus on building on and joining up existing shared care records for 3.8m citizens across Surrey, the Thames Valley and Buckinghamshire.
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The purpose of LHCREs has always been clear – if you were paying attention
For Ewan Davis, the recent reported annoyance over the purpose of local health and care record exemplars (LHCREs) is misplaced – he argues that it was always the intention for LHCREs to enable a national data resource. He also believes that such a resource is necessary and valuable. But he suggests it will only be possible if changes are made and the lessons of the past heeded.
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Swindells says GDEs must not be “digital havens surrounded by paper”
Speaking at the ‘Empowering people in a digital world’ conference on 13 February, Matthew Swindells discussed how technology fits into the Long Term Plan.
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A tug of war over LHCREs is underway
When the Local Health and Care Record Exemplars LHCREs were created, the official line is that they would support local direct care and enable population health management and analytics at regional level. But, as Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports, tensions are emerging on whether they should also provide a bridge to a federated care.data-like national data resource.
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NHS England awards £16m to second stealth wave of LHCREs
The three new selected LHCRE sites which have been awarded money are the Share2Care, the Great North Care Record and the South West.
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