Pharmacists may sanction SCR access
Soon patients may be able to sign up for online access to their Summary Care Record from community pharmacy premises. The Pan-Pharmacy NHS IT group, a body set up to ensure engagement between pharmacists and relevant Connecting for Health programmes, heard at its first meeting this month that patients might be able to register for […]
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out
The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at two GP practices in Bolton, in the north-west of England. Approximately 14,500 patients will have a summary of the GP record, containing details of name, address, medication history, serious illnesses and allergies, uploaded to a […]
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GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’
The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up onto the NHS summary care record if patients have opted in to have their details shared. The agreed recommendation states "That the GPC insists that clinical data should not be uploaded to the Summary care […]
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New mothers in Wales first to have access to EHRs
New mothers are to be among the first in Wales to receive access to their own electronic health records constructed from the data held by their GPs, as a result of Informing Healthcare (IHC), the Welsh national healthcare IT programme. The scheme is part of the development of the ‘My Health On-Line’ system, which will act […]
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Patients use GePmail for self-monitoring
Patients have begun to use a secure internet link to submit their blood pressure and blood sugar results to GPs in a move which could help practices hit their Quality and Outcomes Framework targets. Almost 500 patients have so far registered for the service provided by GePmail, an electronic clinical messaging system which has been […]
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Patients need access to electronic records, say academics
Patients can and should have access to their electronic health records, in order to keep them up-to-date and accurate, a year-long study from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) has found. The study, prepared by Claire Harris and Ruth Boaden on behalf of UMIST’s Health Organisations Research Centre, suggests that the […]
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