Tuesday 5 July 2016

Bexley to launch data sharing initiative to improve adult services

(London, UK) The new data sharing initiative will allow secure sharing of key information from health and social care organisations in a ‘view only’ service.

This will merge key information from hospitals, community health bodies and GPs’ patient records and from local authorities’ social care systems into one record for each person.

Connect Care is an information sharing partnership involving the local authorities of Bexley, Lewisham and Greenwich.

Key health and social care professionals will be given restricted access to the Connect Care hub and users will adhere to strict health and social care confidentiality standards.

A diabetes nurse based in Greenwich said: “I use it for looking up recent blood results and checking which medications people are taking (and how often they are ordering) prior to my diabetes clinics.   For the full article click here 



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