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“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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Anna Caldwell, The Courier-Mail
“Patients will be able to control their most sensitive health details and, for the first time, read their doctor’s secret medical notes.
The reforms, designed to empower patients, will be detailed today in a blueprint for the Gillard Government’s controversial electronic health system.
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SA Mathieson, Guardian Professional
“The Department of Health is restarting its summary care record (SCR) programme, with the plan to establish a market of services allowing patients to access their data.
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Martin Beckford, Telegraph.co.uk
“Only a handful of health authorities even allow their patients to sign up to the HealthSpace project, while thousands of potential users gave up because of the difficulties involved in registering.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Australia’s ehealth authorities will no doubt be interested in the latest report from the UK’s eHealth Insider on usage of the British Government’s patient portal, HealthSpace.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Just 60 patients a month – out of almost 5m with a Summary Care Record – are viewing their SCR via the government’s patient portal, HealthSpace.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Yet another cautionary signal on the design and content of personal health records: a research team led by Trisha Greenhalgh reports (in the British Medical Journal) a dramatic gulf between the expectations of the business case for England’s HealthSpace and actual take-up.
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“Health minister Simon Burns said that patients contacted in future about SCRs will receive an opt out form and a prepaid envelope. There will also be awareness campaigns to inform the 30m people who have already received letters saying their health records will be turned into SCRs.
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Under the law adopted by its Parliament, the Government of Catalonia has developed an electronic medical record system for its National Health System (NHS). The model is governed by the following principles: 1) The citizen as owner of the data: direct access to his data and right to exercise his opposition’s privileges; 2) Generate confidence in the system: security and confidentiality strength; 3) Shared model of information management: publishing system and access to organized and structured information, keeping in mind that the NHS of Catalonia is formally an “Integrated system of healthcare public use” (catalan acronym: SISCAT) with a wide variety of legal structures within its healthcare institutions; 4) Use of communication standards and catalogs as a need for technological and functional integration. In summary: single system of medical records shared between different actors, using interoperability tools and whose development is according to the legislation applicable in Catalonia and within its healthcare system.
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Richard Staines, Pulse
“London LMCs have created an online information resource for GPs to ensure they are aware of roll-out of the Summary Care Record across the capital.
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Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“Australian Medical Association president Andrew Pesce has signalled concerns about plans for patient-controlled e-health records.
Dr Pesce believes provider-controlled input is needed to improve quality of care and reduce adverse health outcomes.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GPs have been advised to be “constantly alert” to potential threats to patient confidentiality and privacy as their representatives back an opt-in model for data sharing.
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Pulse
“LMC leaders have issued a stark challenge to NHS IT chiefs over the rollout of the Summary Care Record, in a fresh call for an end to implied consent and a return to an opt-in model.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“For the past several months, the Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter) has been working alongside other consumer advocates to guide the HHS definition of “meaningful use” of EHRs to include consumer access to meaningful information.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by 2014.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health is hoping to get Treasury approval in the next few weeks to develop its online health organiser HealthSpace.
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“Five GP practices in South West Essex are to become the first GPs in the country to implement the new ‘consent to view’ model for the Summary Care Record from this week.
The practices will also implement consent to view for access to patients’ Detailed Care Records using TPP’s SystmOne.”
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e-Health Insider Primary Care, 1 December 2008
“From March, patients will be able to carry out email consultations with GPs and other clinicians using a Facebook-style tool called Communicator.
E-Health Insider has been told that Communicator will be launched as part of ambitious development plans for HealthSpace, the online organiser that gives patients access to their NHS Summary Care Record.”
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e-Health Insider, 18 November 2008
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“The NHS Care Records Board will today confirm that patients will be asked for permission to share their record at each clinical encounter.
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“Patients ‘have a right’ to see record and suggest corrections, Darzi says.
Patients will have online access to their electronic health records within the next year, according to yesterday’s review of the NHS by Lord Darzi.”
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Leo King, ComputerWorld UK, 1 July 2008
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