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10 August 2017

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
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10 July 2017

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.
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7 June 2017

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).
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6 September 2016

Calling the FHIR brigade

Philip Scott, chair of HL7 UK, discusses the evolution of the HL7 FHIR standard, some projects in which it is
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9 June 2016

Ewan Davis: Texas grass fertiliser and the postmodernEHR

A postmodernEHR sounds like bullsh*t, right? Well, yes: but it could just be one of the most important developments in
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3 February 2016

Ireland consults public on identifier

Irelandā€™s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar
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16 November 2015

Standard bearers: using safety standards in IT implementations

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is promoting the use of standards and safety cases to improve healthcare IT
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5 November 2015

The long Read

Read Codes are to be phased out across the NHS, and SNOMED CT must be used in primary care systems
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14 April 2015

Geisinger sets SMART apps on FHIR

US healthcare provider, Geisinger Health System, has unveiled an EnrG suite of interoperable software applications, able to link to multiple
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20 November 2014

2020 vision

The latest ā€œframeworkā€ for NHS IT has received a cautious welcome. Now analysts, trusts and suppliers want more detail; and
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