New acronym; new hope?
NHS England has published its guidance on the creation of integrated digital care records for the NHS. Lyn Whitfield has an initial look at whether it will do the job that EHI readers wanted it to do.
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SCR to be expanded
Patients’ end-of-life care information, immunisations, and significant past problems and procedures will be added to the NHS Summary Care Record.
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NHS England to fund NHS VistA projects
NHS England will spend some of the £260m Technology Fund on exploring the development of an NHS VistA open source record.
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£260m Technology Fund details revealed
Trusts must apply by the end of this month for part of the £260m Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund; and money must be spent by March 2015.
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Tech fund to ‘catalyse’ NHS IT – Bryant
The £260m fund initially billed as a boost for e-prescribing will be linked to NHS England’s guidance on electronic patient records to “catalyse” the adoption of IT in the NHS, EHI’s Big EPR Debate round table was told.
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