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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
Compiled by Utah-based healthcare research agency KLAS, the NHS Interoperability 2018 report assesses how easily NHS organisations are able to receive data from other bodies.
The programme is being led by NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and will use Graphnetās CareCentric software to share information between Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire County Council Social Care and 51 GP practices.
South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust have merged to become Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, after receiving approval from regulators.
The record will see some GP records being made available to clinicians within the A&E departments of the four local hospital trusts ā St Peterās, Royal Surrey, Epsom and East Surrey.
The chief digital officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership has vowed to work with āneighbours on all sidesā to deliver more integrated healthcare in northern England, following its successful Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) bid.
Are exemplar programmes really the only answer to NHS interoperability?Ā Felim McCarthy thinks otherwise and looks at how those not invited to bid to become a Local Health and Care Record Exemplar could become interoperability heroes.Ā
