A National Perspective
Dr Simon Eccles, Medical Director
NHS Connecting for Health
What is England doing?
• Infrastructure
• N3 – health service
broadband
• NHS Spine
• Personal
Demographics inc
NHS Number
• Access Control
• Secure e-mail
• Healthcare systems
• GP systems inc.
transfers
• Electronic booking
• Mental health systems
• Community systems
• Hospital systems
• Digital imaging
• Summary Care Record
• E-Pathways
How far have we got?
• Infrastructure
• N3 – health service
broadband
• NHS Spine
• Personal
Demographics inc
NHS Number
• Access Control
• Secure e-mail
• Healthcare systems
• GP systems inc.
transfers
• Electronic booking
• Mental health systems
• Community systems
• Hospital systems
• Digital imaging
• Summary Care Record
• E-Pathways
How far have we got?
• Infrastructure
• N3 – health service
broadband
• NHS Spine
• Personal
Demographics inc
NHS Number
• Access Control
• Secure e-mail
• Healthcare systems
• GP systems inc.
transfers
• Electronic booking
• Mental health systems
• Community systems
• Hospital systems
• Digital imaging
• Summary Care Record
• E-Pathways
What does it mean to patients?
• Channel shifts
• Control
• Access
Channel Shifting
What does it mean for
clinicians?
• Data availability
• Data sharing
• Knowledge support
And for population health?
And for care planning?
• The data fire hose
• Options for data amalgamation as never before
Issues
• Standardisation v. localisation
• Datasets
• Pathways
• Differing views on sharing
• Hospital v. family doctors
• Financial Circumstances
Costs v. Values
• Banking and text
messages v. blood
test results
• RFID tags in
supermarkets v.
hospitals
How will this change care?
• GP to GP
• Communicator
• SMS messages
• Summary Care Record
• The power of data to initiate internal change
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