The UK Is Making Some Progress In The Use Of Shared Care Records To Co-ordinate Care.

This appeared a little while ago.Special Report: Shared RecordsShared records starting to make headwaySharing records between care settings is starting to become much more commonplace, but is viewing patient and clinical data enough to deliver joined-up care? Vivienne Raper revisits some of the pioneers of information and record sharing, and examines how they are beginning to use shared records to change how they interact with patients. In 2013 NHS England set out its vision for trusts to achieve a “fully integrated digital care record [IDCR] across all care settings by 2018”.The vision first set out in Safer Hospitals Safer Wards: Achieving an integrated digital care record, defined an IDCR as the ability of users in local health and care services to view patient and clinical data in a joined-up manner.According to Markus Bolton, joint chief executive of shared records specialist Graphnet, real progress has been made in achieving the target. He estimates that around 35% of health...

This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.


from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2jJG6ax
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH

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