DH rolls back GP records access promise
The government’s pledge to give patients online access to their GP records by March 2015 has been scaled back again, with practices now only required to have a plan to provide access by the deadline.
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Patient Online accelerates
Around 25 accelerator sites and ten digital champions are being recruited as part of NHS England’s Patient Online programme to deliver online records access to patients within a year.
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Game on for patient online
There hasn’t been much news about new, online services for patients recently. But Dr Peter Short from the HSCIC tells EHI news editor Rebecca Todd that a lot of background work has been going on.
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London clinic shares ultrasound images
A Harley Street clinic is introducing an online portal called FetView to share ultrasound images, reports and video with pregnant patients.
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NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt
The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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Patients to add to medical record online
Patients will be able to contribute to their own medical record and switch GP practice online, NHS England’s director of patients and information Tim Kelsey has said.
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Five things to watch in primary care, 2014
Rebecca Todd asks primary care IT experts to identify the key issues for 2014; and finds GPSoC2, patient access, care.data, information governance and commissioning data at the top of their lists.
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US patients share images
A project giving patients online access to their radiology images shows that a patient-centred image sharing arrangement can work, delegates to the Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago heard on Monday.
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Prosecution for illegal records access
A former GP surgery manager has been prosecuted and fined for illegally accessing the medical records of nearly 2000 patients, most of whom were women in their 20s and 30s.
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3,000 practices in Emis Web
More than 2,000 GP practices in England and Wales have upgraded to Emis Web over the past year, bringing the total number of users to 3,000.
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