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Limitations of the summary care record.

Limitations of the Summary Care Record I am glad the clinical leaders of Connecting for Health 1,2 have had a chance to reply to the concerns about data security and confidentiality laid out by Professor Anderson 3 and Gordon Baird 4 in February BJGP. In doing so they showed the weakness of their case and the strength of their opponents. In particular they protested about, 'a number of factual ...

Provisional Summary Record of the Second Meeting

Patients' attitudes to the summary care record and HealthSpace: qualitative study.

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 difficultie...

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The Scottish Emergency Care Summary--an evaluation of a national shared record system aiming to improve patient care: technology report.

BACKGROUND In Scotland, out-of-hours calls are all triaged by the National Health Service emergency service (NHS24) but the clinicians receiving calls have no direct access to patient records. OBJECTIVE To improve the safety of patient care in unscheduled consultations when the usual primary care record is not available. TECHNOLOGY The Emergency Care Summary (ECS) is a record system offerin...