Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“A fascinating factoid emerging from the news that NHS Darlington has become the first English primary care trust to complete roll out of the Summary Care Record: only 1.66 per cent of patients opted out of the scheme.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Initially attacked by security expert Dr Ross Anderson, at the time a member of Cambridge University’s Security Group, then shredded by Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, and targeted for abandonment by government ministers – “with the government, academia and the BMA against it, the SCR was clearly doomed” – it is now regarded as being important for healthcare, and is being described by 70 per cent. of after-hours GPs as enhancing patient safety.
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Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider
“New research has found that more than 4% of electronic prescriptions written by general practitioners contain errors.
Researchers from Reading University have been studying prescription data from 15 general practices over the past 18 months and are on the verge of publishing the results.
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Linda Davidson, e-Health Insider Acute
“There are now over nine million summary care records (SCRs) available for use in urgent and emergency care in England, the Ascribe User Conference heard this week.
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Tony Collins, Campaign4Change
“Last month the Department of Health briefed the Daily Mail on plans to dismantle the National Programme for IT. The result was a front page lead article in the Mail, under the headline:
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Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider
“Yet another review is being carried out into the viability of the HealthSpace organiser, which gives patients access to their Summary Care Record if it exists and they have an ‘advanced’ account.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Doctors have expressed concern about the benefits of the Summary Care Record programme but stepped back from calling for the roll-out to be halted.
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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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BigPond News
“The federal government is likely to manage a national database to store the summaries of electronic health records belonging to millions of Australians.
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Bratan T et al, Health Expectations, 13(4)
BACKGROUND
The introduction of electronic patient records that are accessible by multiple providers raises security issues and requires informed consent – or at the very least, an opportunity to opt out. Introduction of the Summary Care Record (SCR) (a centrally stored electronic summary of a patient’s medical record) in pilot sites in the UK was associated with low awareness, despite an intensive public information programme that included letters, posters, leaflets, and road shows. AIM To understand why the public information programme had limited impact and to learn lessons for future programmes.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“The Department of Health wants every patient in England to have been offered the opportunity to have a Summary Care Record by the end of 2013.
The new target has been set by the DH as it launches a fresh push to inform patients about the SCR and encourage uptake.
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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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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“More than 25% of GP practices in Wales are now feeding information into the country’s summary record via INPS’s Vision 360 data sharing solution.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“More than 9,000 patients in Bradford had their Summary Care Record enriched without their consent, it has emerged.
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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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Greenhalgh T et al, BMJ, 336(7656)
Objective
To document the views of patients and the public towards the summary care record (SCR, a centrally stored medical record drawn from the general practice record) and HealthSpace (a personal health organiser accessible through the internet from which people can view their SCR), with a particular focus on those with low health literacy, potentially stigmatising conditions, or difficulties accessing health care.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to develop a clearer set of technical descriptions for establishing the standard clinical document formats for exchanging summary information as patients move across settings of care.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The BMA’s GP committee is advising family doctors in England not to upload any more Summary Care Records until it has agreed how recommendations from two reviews should be implemented.
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