Anything's better than the current NHS methods for dealing with clinical records discussion
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Medical record retrieval is awful. Our implementation of Cerner Millenium has made it worse. The logical place to store them is in the Cloud. The technologies to secure them properly certainly exist, after all.
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has decided not to take CSC’s Lorenzo electronic patient record system under the company’s interim deal with the Department of Health.
Around 180 commissioning support unit staff have been seconded into the Health and Social Care Information Centre to deliver the Data Service for Commissioners.
Adoption of electronic records has reached a tipping point amongst doctors, but clinicians must do more to respond to digital patients, an international survey of health IT trends suggests.
The NHS is once more being urged to implement electronic patient records as the foundation for paperless working - and it's time for EHI readers to shape the way forward.
