http://whoseeswhat.org.uk Using electronic patient records for healthcare and research Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:48:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Big news for electronic patient records this week. Doctors' representative body, The British Medical Association has called for uploads to the Summary Care Records service to be halted. Smarthealthcare has the story: The British Medical Association has written to health minister Mike O'Brien, expressing 'serious concern' about the widespread introduction of ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/03/doctors-groups-calls-for-summary-care-records-uploads-to-be-halted/ This is a guest post from Sophia Hatfield of Pathways, a Manchester-based consultation and community engagement organisation. I’ve been running Democs games across the North West with the Pathways Team and have consulted lots of different groups with very different reasons to take an interest the project. Most Patient Groups and ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/02/who-sees-what-a-view-from-the-trenches/ Over on Smarth Healtchare, Phil Booth, head of the NO2ID campaign against ID cards, has written a scorching attack on the Summary Care Record. "The creation of centralised systems that make sensitive personal information accessible to many, and not just those directly involved in providing care, undermines the confidence patients can ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/02/why-do-people-worry-about-electronic-patient-records/ Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Norman Lamb laid out his party's vision for the future of the NHS at a high profile policy speech earlier this month and had some interesting things to say about patient records systems.  Lamb’s vision is of an NHS that empowers individuals, with easy access to ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/02/389/ Last week I was lucky enough to attend a Who Sees What discussion event run by an older people's forum in the North West. One of the most interesting points to come out of the discussion was fears about the accuracy of records. One member of the group quite rightly ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/01/changing-records-gets-easier/ At Who Sees What this week we're too busy helping people put on games to do much blogging, but I thought I'd steer you to this fantastic forecast for 2010 from the Smart Healthcare blog: Last year saw shockingly disparate reports on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Some declared that ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/01/smart-views-on-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 ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/01/patient-records-in-2010/ We're super excited to be launching our new materials for people with learning disabilities which we have developed in partnerhip with a great organisation called Social Interface. One of the core values of the project is that in order for policy to work, it needs input from everybody. When we made ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2010/01/new-who-sees-what-materials-for-people-with-learning-disabilities-launched/ The Department of Health last year ran a consultation into who should have access to patients’ medical data. More precisely, they wanted to know about ‘additional uses’ of patient records, apart from the patients’ medical care, and about the different systems which should be in place for ‘anonymised’ and ‘identifiable’ ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2009/12/patients-want-to-be-asked-consultation-concludes/ 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 ... http://whoseeswhat.org.uk/2009/12/money-money-money/