Record number of patients sign up to electronic portal in Birmingham
The number of patients enrolled in the portal has reached 20,000. It allows patients to access clinical information, including appointments and lab results.
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Advisory Series: Portals
For the second of Digital Health Intelligence’s new advisory series, Claire Read looks at how sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are embracing portals – and considers how the concept is evolving.
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PHRs struggling to gain traction and show benefits – review
Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found, a wide-ranging review by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit for NHS England has concluded.
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My kind of thing
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust won the last EHI Award for the ‘best use of technology to share information with patients and carers’ for its myhealth@QEHB portal. Paul Curran finds out why.
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Summer roll-out for myhealth@QEHB
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has announced the roll-out of its patient portal, which allows those with long-term conditions to view and update their medical records.
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