Roundtable: How is data sharing developing in ICSs and between organisations – and what more needs to be done?
Shared care records are increasingly valued and developed but the obstacles in the way of further progress need to be addressed, agreed a recent Digital Health roundtable with Virgin Media O2 Business. By Claire Read
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Rickles: Shared care records the ‘Cinderella service of frontline digitisation’
Lee Rickles believes shared care records are “the Cinderella service of frontline digitisation” and do not get enough funding like other initiatives.
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AI will revolutionise our ‘disorganised’ healthcare system, but only if it has reliable data
Building AI tools into existing models is futile. It is time to go back to the drawing board, argues Orion Health’s Brad Porter.
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Digital Health Unplugged: Interoperability in action: empowering improved outcomes through connecting care records
This episode of Unplugged takes a look at interoperability in practice and empowering improved health outcomes through connecting care records.
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Make shared care records work for urgent and emergency care
Expecting paramedics to wade through shared care records is unsafe and inefficient. In an emergency, access to essential information has to be easy and fast, writes Claire Jones from NHS England South West.
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ICS leaders discuss integration, sustainability of shared care records
Shared care records are helping to improve patient outcomes and further the goal of integrated care, but funding must be made sustainable.
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Is the Federated Data Platform too expensive to cancel?
Sticking with a hugely expensive plan to develop a ‘mythical beast’ of a fighter plane in the 1960s did not end well for the government of the day. The Federated Data Platform may be similarly doomed, writes Joe McDonald
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West Midlands ICS integrates with InterSystems HealthShare
NHS trusts across the West Midlands are now able to access and share cancer registry data through InterSystems HealthShare, a shared care record project.
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Digital support of ICBs requires focus on overall system – Birmingham case
Digital support of ICBs needs to focus on the goals of the overall system rather than its constituent parts, Digital Health Summer School was told Friday.
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Government issues new digital guidance to transform adult social care
Social care employers will be better able to equip their staff with digital skills, enhancing patient care, thanks to new government guidance.
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