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Exploring how health and care professionals are using digital and data to make integrated care a reality, spanning shared care records, population health, patient portals and remote care.Â
Dorset wants a shared care record in April this year, subject to the eight organisations involved signing off a ÂŁ20 million deal with Orion Health.
The Great North Care Record has signed up 96% of north east GP practices to turn on their information governance, allowing secondary care to view GP record.
UK clinical software suppliers System C and Graphnet have announced they will integrate next generation technologies from Microsoft.
NHS England is concerned about the “varying quality” of IT supporting the roll-out of personal health budgets and integrated personal commissioning.
The report, from the National Audit Office, says reticence to share information across health and social care is one three major barriers to integration.
Sharing 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.
