Michael Seres, beingapatient
“It has been a little while I know. Sometimes though the patient in me rears its ugly head again and I have to get out of blogger mode and in to being a bowel transplant patient. That is kind of a long winded apology but The Churchill Hospital, Oxford has seem a little too much of me of late.
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PublicTechnology
“Technology company Accenture has unveiled its latest research which has found that almost two thirds of doctors in England believe that the introduction of electronic health records has improved the quality of patient care.
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Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The Veterans Affairs Department and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service have teamed up to share ideas, strategies and leadership for development of health information technology, opening the possibility that the NHS could use VA’s electronic health record system.
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e-Health Insider
“The overwhelming majority of GP practices are not ready to implement the government’s flagship NHS IT pledge to give patients online access to their records by 2015.
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Gary Flood, InformationWeek Healthcare
“More details have emerged about ambitious plans to roll out electronic health records (EHRs) in the U.K.’s socialized health system, despite the catastrophic failure of a previous $19 billion program to do just that.
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Jon Hoeksma, EHI Primary Care
“NHS hospitals will need to have operational electronic patient records working by April 2014 to meet the data flow requirements set by the NHS Commissioning Board and as a milestone towards making the NHS paperless by 2018.
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Shah AD et al, BMC medical informatics and decision making, 12(1)
BACKGROUND:
Electronic health records are invaluable for medical research, but much information is stored as free text rather than in a coded form. For example, in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD), causes of death and test results are sometimes recorded only in free text. Free text can be difficult to use for research if it requires time-consuming manual review. Our aim was to develop an automated method for extracting coded information from free text in electronic patient records.
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Practice Business
“A guide to personal health records (PHRs) released by the the Patient Information Forum (PiF) has highlighted the challenges that practices face in reaching the government’s target of giving every patient access to their GP records by 2015.
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Danny Garcia, TopNews
“Some new truths have come out regarding the federal government’s e-health platform, which have almost shocked everyone concerned.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“A new advisory body is being created to look at expanding the Summary Care Record to include non-GP information such as hospital data.
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Pagliari C et al, JRSM short reports, 3(5)
OBJECTIVES
To explore the integration of online patient Record Access within UK Primary Care, its perceived impacts on workload and service quality, and barriers to implementation.
DESIGN
Mixed format survey of clinicians, administrators and patients. Telephone interviews with non-users.
SETTING
Primary care centres within NHS England that had offered online record access for the preceding year.
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Luchenski S et al, BMC medical informatics and decision making, 12(1)
BACKGROUND:
Immediate access to patients’ complete health records via electronic databases could improve healthcare and facilitate health research. However, the possible benefits of a national electronic health records (EHR) system must be balanced against public concerns about data security and personal privacy. Successful development of EHR requires better understanding of the views of the public and those most affected by EHR: users of the National Health Service. This study aims to explore the correlation between personal healthcare experience (including number of healthcare contacts and number and type of longer term conditions) and views relating to development of EHR for healthcare, health services planning and policy and health research.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“I wonder how Australian doctors who oppose the PCEHR due to their belief that patients should keep their noses out of their medical records are going to react to the fact that Britain’s NHS seems intent on giving patients the ability to add information to their own electronic health records and correct them by 2015?
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“Four TPP practices are piloting a scheme to provide patients with access to their health records online; but the company’s clinical director has said many GPs still have concerns.
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Robert N. Charette, IEEE Spectrum
“The decision last year to finally cancel the UK’s National Program for IT (NPfIT) effort to implement a nation-wide integrated electronic health record (EHR) system because of its spiraling cost and complexity is looking better all the time. According to a recent story in Computer Weekly, roughly 60 percent of London National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts are operating without IT disaster recovery systems in place.
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e-Health Insider
“The Government pledge to give all patients access to their electronic health records by October 2015 is a “tall order” for busy GPs to fulfill, says Dame Fiona Caldicott.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Buried in this story from the UK’s eHealth Insider on the fact that the NHS Information Centre is to collect data on which GP practices are offering patients access to their medical records online
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HealthTechWire
“NHS Oxfordshire is contacting patients in the county to prepare for the rollout of the Summary Care Record. Every patient registered at a GP practice in Oxfordshire aged 16 years and over is being sent a letter this month to explain what the summary care records are, their benefits, and that patients need to make a choice about whether they have the records or not.
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Verity Ward, The Shields Gazette
“Thousands of South Tynesiders are being offered new electronic health records to ensure they get the best treatment in emergencies.
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Cresswell KM et al, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, 2012
Background:
National electronic health record (EHR) programs are increasingly being pursued across the world with the aim of improving the safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare. Despite significant international investments, and particularly in the light of reported “failures”, there is surprisingly little evidence on the specific and potentially transferable factors associated with the planning and execution of large-scale EHR implementations. England embarked on a National Program in 2002, characterized by “top-down”, central procurement of a few, standardized EHR systems.
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