Interoperability

Ireland consults public on identifier

Ireland’s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar
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GS1 demonstrator sites announced

Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share £12
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Local digital roadmaps delayed

Clinical commissioning groups now have until June to submit their Local Digital Roadmaps after NHS England pushed back the submission
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89 footprints on NHS digital plan

NHS England has received 89 ‘footprints’ from local healthcare economies working to develop roadmaps for the future of their digital
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GPs get read and write records access

Clinical staff at Richmond’s new extended appointment hubs are able to read and write into patient records held in both
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Standard bearers: using safety standards in IT implementations

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is promoting the use of standards and safety cases to improve healthcare IT
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E-discharge: unmonitored target defended

The October target for all providers to send discharge letters electronically is not being monitored nationally, but has focused attention
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E-discharge: Nottinghamshire junks faxes

Some Nottinghamshire GPs have used the October e-discharge target to stop receiving faxes altogether, forcing all providers to adopt electronic
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IT system integration – Yorkshire

A portal pulling together information from various clinical IT systems is being implemented at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation
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The long Read

Read Codes are to be phased out across the NHS, and SNOMED CT must be used in primary care systems
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