Sharing patient information electronically throughout the NHS

Patient Satisfaction With Information Sharing.

Enhancing Patient Information Sharing through Social Networks

Currently, there is an effort for empowering patient self-care and improving the traditional healthcare delivery models by expanding the concept of healthcare though the provision of advanced online healthcare services. Those services require increased level of information flow and collaboration among patients and healthcare professionals. This collaboration and patient information sharing can ...

Improved information for the NHS.

The Secretary of State's acceptance of the recommendations of the Steering Group on Health Services Information rounds off a stage of an enterprise that seeks to align the collection, processing, and dissemination of information in the National Health Service to the clinical and economic realities of the present and foreseeable future. The steering group has produced six reports,'6 and on the t...

Part time working and job sharing in the NHS.

of referral to a specialist centre is important and should take account of the woman's age and the duration of subfertility. The longer the patient remains childless the lower the chance of conception, and as time runs out anxiety increases. Purchasing authorities are beginning to recognise the importance of subfertility and to purchase services for assisted conception. The techniques themselve...

Liberating the NHS: an information revolution--think beyond the electronic patient record, think service orientated architecture!

The originators of primary care computer systems designed them to perform functions which were at the time of low quality, took considerable time, or were impossible with paper-based systems. They developed systems which provided them a service. For example, prior to the computerisation of primary care much of the clinical consultation with a person with a chronic illness would be spent trying ...