“Researchers evaluating the UK’s electronic health record system have found benefits of the now-suspended scheme to be “more modest than expected”.
The Summary Care Record (SCR) scheme was implemented from 2008 to April 2010 as part of the English Government’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
Like Australia’s e-Health plan, the SCR scheme aimed to provide a centralised database containing patient details such as allergies, prescriptions and vaccination history.”
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Liz Tay, itnews, 18 June 2010
Article (Greenhalgh 2010)
