Patient access

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23 April 2014

DH rolls back GP records access promise

The government’s pledge to give patients online access to their GP records by March 2015 has been scaled back again,
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3 April 2014

Patient Online accelerates

Around 25 accelerator sites and ten digital champions are being recruited as part of NHS England’s Patient Online programme to
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3 April 2014

Game on for patient online

There hasn’t been much news about new, online services for patients recently. But Dr Peter Short from the HSCIC tells
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21 February 2014

London clinic shares ultrasound images

A Harley Street clinic is introducing an online portal called FetView to share ultrasound images, reports and video with pregnant
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6 February 2014

NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt

The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt
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22 January 2014

Patients to add to medical record online

Patients will be able to contribute to their own medical record and switch GP practice online, NHS England’s director of
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2 January 2014

Five things to watch in primary care, 2014

Rebecca Todd asks primary care IT experts to identify the key issues for 2014; and finds GPSoC2, patient access, care.data,
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4 December 2013

US patients share images

A project giving patients online access to their radiology images shows that a patient-centred image sharing arrangement can work, delegates
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3 December 2013

Prosecution for illegal records access

A former GP surgery manager has been prosecuted and fined for illegally accessing the medical records of nearly 2000 patients,
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4 October 2013

3,000 practices in Emis Web

More than 2,000 GP practices in England and Wales have upgraded to Emis Web over the past year, bringing the
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