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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Eason K, Waterson P. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2012
Purpose
This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care.
Methods
Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified. A study was conducted in England to examine the human and organizational implications of systems implemented by these four strategies. Results were used from evaluation reports of two systems delivered as part of the NPfIT (National Programme for Information Technology) and from user responses to systems delivered in two local health communities in England. In the latter study 40 clinical respondents reported the use of systems to support integrated care in six healthcare pathways.
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Peter Dawson, The Guardian
“Two weeks ago one of our patients, a 59-year-old woman with a diagnosis of vascular dementia and epilepsy, living alone with the daily support of carers, had been treated in hospital after an apparent fall. She was back home, but required further supplies of her new medications.
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Rebecca Todd, EHI Primary Care
“The Government’s proposed GP contract changes will include new payments for GPs who offer patients online access to their health records.
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Julie Bird, FierceHealthIT
“Health informatics has the same potential to find game-changing medical treatments by sifting through patient data as the sports-loving computer geek who helped the lowly Oakland A’s build a winning baseball team in “Moneyball,” the Boston Herald reports.
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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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Jill R. Aitoro, Washington Business Journal
“A stalled contract with the U.K. that has been a thorn in Computer Sciences Corp.’s side has also proved to be a valuable marketing tool, allowing the company to share lessons learned with potential customers in the federal government, said CSC’s new public sector chief.
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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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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“Providing patients access to their online records by 2015 is one of the few specific commitments in the government’s newly released NHS information strategy.
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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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