‘Why we need set standards’, explains PRSB chair Maureen Baker
Professional Records Standard Body newly appointed chief exec explains the importance of setting care record standards across the healthcare system.
Shared Records
PRSB publishes new outpatient letter standards
Patients and professionals who provide care are set to benefit from new standards for the drafting of outpatient letters, produced by the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB).
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Who are PRSB and what is their role in digital health?
The Professional Record Standards Body was established back in 2013 to develop clinical standards for health and care records.
Shared Records 1
Care homes need better digital information sharing
A Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) survey reveals care homes need better digital information sharing following hospital discharge.
Digital Patient 1
New PRSB standards published on e-discharge summaries
A re-worked version of the e-discharge summary standard has been published by the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB).
Interoperability 5
E-discharge standards to GPs ‘poor’
Central NHS organisations are rebooting attempts to improve communication between emergency departments and GPs, with the ‘perpetual winter’ crisis now affecting the NHS spurring new efforts.
Interoperability
Andy Kinnear: finds inspiration
Family, national figures, colleagues, patients. All can be sources of inspiration, and the NHS needs that in tough times, writes Andy Kinnear.
Feature
Ewan Davis: the content challenge
Clinicians not modellers need to define clinical content argues Ewan Davis. That means using openEHR and the PRSB.
Feature
E-discharge: unmonitored target defended
The October target for all providers to send discharge letters electronically is not being monitored nationally, but has focused attention on the need to make the process paperless, supporters have argued.
Interoperability
October target for e-discharge
EXCLUSIVE: NHS providers must send discharge summaries to GPs electronically by October this year, NHS England has said.
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