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Exploring how health and care professionals are using digital and data to make integrated care a reality,Ā spanning shared care records, population health, patient portals and remote care.Ā
Speaking at The Royal Society event today, Matt Hancock’s call for more counsellors will form part of theĀ National Genomics Healthcare Strategy.
Dr Claire Fuller, a senior officer involved in LHCRE project, told an event in London a company had been procured to supply a single data store.
Dame Caldicott was appointed national data guardian for health in 2014 to ensure the public can trust their health data is used appropriately.
The new system uses a process that copies, transfers and stores the whole GP database, rather than the minimal data required to update vaccinations data.
Radiology results as well as pathology reports and referrals are now included on the shared record which is part of the Wessex LHCRE.
For Ewan Davis, the recent reported annoyance over the purpose of local health and care record exemplars (LHCREs) is misplaced ā he argues that it was always the intention for LHCREs to enable a national data resource. He also believes that such a resource is necessary and valuable. But he suggests it will only be possible if changes are made and the lessons of the past heeded.
