Archive for 'Patient Access'
Patient Records in 2010
I don’t know what 2010 holds for you, but it promises to be a big year for electronic patient records. Tuesday saw David Cameron kicking of the pre-election campaign with a speech which, amongst other things, put online records access at the heart of Conservative NHS policy.
But while Cameron’s announcement that patients will “be able [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2010 under In the news, On the horizon, Patient Access.
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Money, money, money
Yesterday, on the Andrew Marr show, Chancellor Alistair Darling announced the NHS IT project will be seeing serious cuts as part of a crack down on government spending. He argued that “the NHS has quite an expensive IT system that, frankly, is not essential for the front line. That’s something we do not need to [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2009 under In the news, Patient Access, Patient power.
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HealthSpace back from the dead?
It looks like the NHS hasn’t given up on providing patients with access to their records, after all. This week Connecting for health announces they’re hoping to do more work on their patient access website Healthspace.
One of the reasons HealthSpace was shelved back in June was the low take-up of patients who chose to access [...]
Posted: October 9th, 2009 under In the news, Patient Access, Patient power.
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HealthSpace on review
In June we mentioned that the NHS was halting developments to HealthSpace after a low take-up of patients choosing to log on in pilot areas. The NHS promised further investigation into the value of HealthSpace to patients before reviewing where to go from here.
Well, that research is now being carried out and you can fill [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2009 under Patient Access, Patient power.
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Should Google and Microsoft manage our patient records for us?
Over at the Guardian’s Smarthealthcare, details of a new announcement by David Cameron may prove concerning for privacy advocates. Against a background of significant criticism of the NHS IT programme by the opposition, the Tory leader has suggested a different approach to the management of our healthcare data. His inspiration is Google Health and Microsoft [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under Consent and trust, In the news, On the horizon, Patient Access, Patient power, Privacy and Security, Who Sees What?.
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HealthSpace on hold?
There’s some big news breaking over at the specialist E-Health Insider blog, which today reports that the Department of Health has shelved plans for the expansion and development of HealthSpace. Healthspace was intended to be an all-singing all dancing NHS website which let patients book appointments, look at their medical records and keep track of [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2009 under In the news, Patient Access, Patient power.
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