Welsh GPs put conditions on IHR
GP representatives in Wales have listed a series of safeguards that they want to see implemented before Individual Health Records are uploaded.
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BMA tells GPs to hold fire on SCR
The BMA’s GP committee is advising family doctors in England not to upload any more Summary Care Records until it has agreed how recommendations from two reviews should be implemented.
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London GPs told to hold fire on SCR
GPs in London have been told to do nothing about the Summary Care Record until they get the go-ahead from the BMA’s GP committee.
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Greenhalgh attacks HealthSpace response
The author of the definitive study of the personal health record portal HealthSpace has attacked the Department of Health’s response to the research.
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SCR patient campaign set to restart
Public Information Programmes for the Summary Care Record are to restart before Christmas following a five month suspension.
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GPs told check consent for SCR add-ons
GP practices that have added additional information to Summary Care Records without explicit patient consent have been told to gain consent or remove the information as soon as possible. NHS Connecting for Health has written to primary care trusts outlining the need for practices to gain explicit consent for any enrichment of the SCR, following the […]
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Summary Care Record given go-ahead
The Summary Care Record is to go ahead, but its content will be limited to core information and an opt-out form will be included in patient information packs.
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Vision 360 brought to Isle of Wight
NHS Isle of Wight is to use INPS’s Vision 360 to share summary information from GP records with its walk-in centre, out-of-hours service and A&E department from the beginning of November.
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NPfIT’s GP elements to become services
The GP elements of the National Programme for IT in the NHS are destined to become services, while a review of the Summary Care Record will focus on consent and ‘enrichment.’
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Microsoft HealthVault “stands ready”
Microsoft’s international business development lead has told E-Health Insider that the company “stands ready” to work with the government on personal health records. Should the coalition want to move forward with plans to introduce PHRs, Microsoft says it would hope to support them with its HealthVault platform. EHI TV asked whether Microsoft is disappointed by […]
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