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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Yorkshire LHCRE to train IT leaders to international standards
The Yorkshire and Humber Local Health and Care Record Exemplar now has 30 IT leaders trained under the College for Healthcare Informatics Professionals.
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Special Report: Shared Care Records
How much progress has been made on shared records, what obstacles remain, and can the exemplars help other areas of the NHS progress? Maja Dragovic investigates.
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Swindells strikes refreshingly optimistic tone at Expo
In a refreshingly upbeat speech from NHS England’s famously-candid national director for operations and information, Swindells suggested NHS IT had taken “a huge step forward” in the past two years.
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Shared record system to connect NHS trusts in Lancs and South Cumbria
The Lancashire Person Record Exchange Service enables clinicians to share patient records and notes with other health and care organisations electronically.
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NICE healthcare collaboration in Greater Manchester extended by three years
A major collaboration aimed at improving health and care services in Greater Manchester has been extended for a further three years.
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Thames Valley and Yorkshire and Humber win last two LHCRE spots
A total of seven consortia have been bidding for two remaining LHCRE projects, joining the three announced in late May; London, Manchester and Wessex.
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Greater Manchester LHCRE to work with neighbours toward ‘common capability’
The chief digital officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership has vowed to work with “neighbours on all sides” to deliver more integrated healthcare in northern England, following its successful Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) bid.
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Can the ‘have-nots’ overtake Exemplars in the interoperability stakes?
Are exemplar programmes really the only answer to NHS interoperability? Felim McCarthy thinks otherwise and looks at how those not invited to bid to become a Local Health and Care Record Exemplar could become interoperability heroes.
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Greater Manchester, Wessex and One London selected as LHCREs
The three areas, which have a total population of around 14 million, will receive £7.5m over two years and are tasked with putting in place an electronic shared local health and care record by building on existing local work.
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