• The programme was established in October 2002 following several Department of Health reports on IT Strategies for the NHS, and on 1 April 2005 a new agency called NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) was formed to deliver the programme. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 31 March 2013, NHS Connecting for Health ceased to exist,[citation needed] and some projects and responsibilities were taken over by Health and Social Care Information Centre. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example,the fact that systems are 'hosted' - that is, the patient data from records toX-ray images are kept at an LSP hosting centre rather than at the hospital itself- makes operations critically dependent on the availability of the hosting serviceand of the communications to it. (onlinepdfcatalog.com)
  • The NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) agency was part of the UK Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was part of the Department of Health Informatics Directorate, with the role to maintain and develop the NHS national IT infrastructure. (wikipedia.org)
  • It adopted the responsibility of delivering the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), an initiative by the Department of Health to move the National Health Service (NHS) in England towards a single, centrally-mandated electronic care record for patients and to connect 30,000 general practitioners to 300 hospitals, providing secure and audited access to these records by authorised health professionals. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2011 remaining aspects of the National Programme for IT were cancelled, and most of the spending would proceed with the Department of Health seeking for local software solutions rather than a single nationally imposed system. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Department of Health has published its information strategy to help support delivery of the National Service Framework (NSF) for renal services. (digitalhealth.net)
  • In the days of paper records the problem did not arise, or was at least not so acute, as the department of Health normally only got its hands on the recordafter the patient was dead - and so could no longer sue for breach of confidence. (onlinepdfcatalog.com)
  • It was planned that patients would also have access to their records online through a service called HealthSpace. (wikipedia.org)
  • This envisaged all clinical records in England moving to a national system, with hospital and GP records being kept on centralised systems by contractors- 'Local Service Providers' (LSPs) in five regions, and some further nationalapplications spanning the whole of England. (onlinepdfcatalog.com)
  • The eventual response of the Government was the Healthand Social Care Act 2001 which allowed the Secretary of State to declare anyflow of health information to be legal, regardless of objections under the law ofconfidence or data protection. (onlinepdfcatalog.com)
  • All the information provided to Healthspace by a User, including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. (myhealthspace.in)
  • The following week, a Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust poll revealed that 53% ofpatients oppose a central medical records database with no right to opt out. (onlinepdfcatalog.com)
  • By 2009, it was still managed nationally by CfH, with responsibility for delivery shared with the chief executives of the ten strategic health authorities. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example,a clinical information system developed by System C and used in a number ofUK hospitals adopted a form of role-based access control to restrict record accessto staff in a patient's ward or department [7]. (onlinepdfcatalog.com)
  • Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in planning personal health choices are advocated in the government's new white paper on public health. (digitalhealth.net)
  • The NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) agency was part of the UK Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. (wikipedia.org)
  • The programme was established in October 2002 following several Department of Health reports on IT Strategies for the NHS, and on 1 April 2005 a new agency called NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) was formed to deliver the programme. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the UK a national policy, Connecting for Health , was developed with the primary purpose of developing a computer database of patient health records 'from cradle to grave' for use by clinicians [ 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Connecting for Health also included a Research Capability Programme that aimed to ensure that researchers had access to patient data, subject to ethical and legal protections. (biomedcentral.com)
  • however, the evidence suggests that patient privacy perspectives are more nuanced than what has been assumed in the academic and health care community. (jmir.org)
  • Participant health care experiences informed their privacy perspectives, trust, and PHI sharing attitudes-all accentuating the importance of the patient experience in building trust in HIE. (jmir.org)
  • The success of the Kaiser Permanente model and the failure of HealthSpace represent the poles of ePHR implementation, and research teams, designers and policy makers should learn from both before rushing into a wholesale, untailored approach to record sharing. (medscape.com)
  • The title of this 13th conference is Data and Knowledge for Medical Decision Support, and the conference addresses this important field, linking traditional and translational medicine with natural sciences and technology with a view to the design, implementation and deployment of intelligent systems which will meet the expectations of developers and users such as health professionals and patients. (iospress.nl)
  • The ePHR may provide potential benefits for those who receive care from a range of services, as is frequently the case in mental health. (medscape.com)
  • Cite this: Electronic Personal Health Records in Mental Health - Medscape - Jul 26, 2011. (medscape.com)
  • The privacy of patients with mental health conditions is prominent in health information exchange (HIE) discussions, given that their potentially sensitive personal health information (PHI) may be electronically shared for various health care purposes. (jmir.org)
  • This study aimed to generate an understanding on how patients with mental health conditions feel about privacy in the context of HIE in Canada. (jmir.org)
  • Semistructured interviews were conducted with patients at a Canadian academic hospital for addictions and mental health. (jmir.org)
  • This study introduces evidence that patients with mental health conditions would support HIE. (jmir.org)
  • Privacy and trust are critical for patients with mental health conditions. (jmir.org)
  • Statistical analyses will be conducted using descriptive techniques to present respondents' overall views about electronic health records and logistic regression to explore associations between these views and participants' personal circumstances, experiences, sociodemographics and more specific views about electronic health records. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, medical data contain sensitive personal information of patients. (jmir.org)
  • Immediate access to patients' complete health records via electronic databases could improve healthcare and facilitate health research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The future of EHRs in the UK is a subject of much political debate, but the perspective of the principal consumers of health records for medical care - patients and members of the public - is often missing from the discussion. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Doctors are now being asked to supply the names and addresses of patients who have "genuine" reasons for not wishing their records to be stored on the government's centralised computer. (me.uk)
  • By computerising key information about patients of the kind that may affect or impact on their medical care, should they be taken ill or injured 'out of hours' or away from their home area and making this information readily accessible to doctors in, for example, A&E units, the summary care records held in The Spine could, quite literally, save lives (and money, as well - but that's another story). (me.uk)
  • The NHS Spine is not intended to carry patient's entire medical records, merely a summary of useful information - the full records are dealt with under a linked project to develop full electronic care records for all patients, with those records to held locallly and not not on a national database. (me.uk)
  • Such systems must meet the expectations of developers, of users, such as physicians, nurses and other health professionals, but also those of patients. (iospress.nl)
  • In 2011 remaining aspects of the National Programme for IT were cancelled, and most of the spending would proceed with the Department of Health seeking for local software solutions rather than a single nationally imposed system. (wikipedia.org)
  • available to external observers", nor even to MPs, attracted significant criticism, and was one of the issues which in April 2006 prompted 23 academics in computer-related fields to raise concerns about the programme in an open letter to the Health Select Committee. (wikipedia.org)
  • Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that provides data integrity to enable patient-centered health information exchange and access control. (jmir.org)
  • With the increasing sophistication of the medical industry, various advanced medical services such as medical artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and personalized health care services have emerged. (jmir.org)
  • This study aims to explore the correlation between personal healthcare experience (including number of healthcare contacts and number and type of longer term conditions) and views relating to development of EHR for healthcare, health services planning and policy and health research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Ensuring patient safety and providing high-quality health services are the dominant challenges faced by healthcare systems around the world today. (iospress.nl)
  • As a result, health care institutions and medical practitioners are researching various mechanisms and tools to feed medical data into their systems seamlessly. (jmir.org)
  • The EFMI STC 2013 is Europe's leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work in health informatics processes, systems and technologies this year. (iospress.nl)
  • Your NHS Medical Number (obviously, so they can identify your summary care record). (me.uk)
  • They also understood that their PHI was critical in supporting the single-payer Canadian health care system. (jmir.org)
  • Their lack of knowledge about patient rights and PHI uses highlights the degree of trust they have in the health care system to protect their privacy. (jmir.org)
  • However, the possible benefits of a national electronic health records (EHR) system must be balanced against public concerns about data security and personal privacy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It was part of the Department of Health Informatics Directorate, with the role to maintain and develop the NHS national IT infrastructure. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford. (bjgp.org)
  • this includes enhanced networking socially and technologically as well as the inclusion of public health and social sciences. (iospress.nl)
  • The sharing of advanced knowledge and best practice in diagnosis, therapy, process optimization and prevention, the inclusion of public health and social sciences, as well as the deployment of any relevant information, is of vital importance. (iospress.nl)
  • Some of the ethical and political challenges presented by EHRs include citizens' rights over ownership of their own medical data, specifically on what terms and in what ways personal or anonymised health records can be used for medical treatment and research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Rather, direct observations and experiences with the mistreatment of PHI in health care settings caused concern. (jmir.org)
  • Decisions to trust others with PHI depended on past experiences with the individual (or institution) and health care needs. (jmir.org)
  • The most rigorous controls will put in place to ensure the privacy of information and people, in discussion with their doctors, can decide what will be visible in their Summary Care Records. (me.uk)