NHS Digital moves to FHIR
NHS Digital has announced it will move to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards for transfers of care. NHS Digital has announced it will move to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards for transfers of care to make sure provider systems can comply with the requirement to send structured, coded discharge summaries from hospital to […]
PRSB works with NHS Digital to rollout SNOMED CT
The PRSB is working with NHS Digital, as it leads the drive to establish a digital clinical language across health and social care to improve quality and safety across the system. This will be done through the implementation of SNOMED CT as the standard for terminology used in systems, for the provision of care as […]
PRSB at biggest ever CCIO Summer School
The PRSB attended this month’s Digital Health summer school in Manchester with chief clinical information officers and other information specialist leaders. The event boasted record attendance with wide-ranging discussions and a few late nights, as more than 300 people descended on the University of Manchester. The PRSB’s Clinical Director Dr Phil Koczan also joined the […]
Digital care and support planning standard
Care and support plans are fundamental to high-quality person-centred care and this month the PRSB held a workshop to develop a standard for digital care and support planning. The workshop was well-attended with nearly 60 professionals, patients, carers and suppliers engaging in lively discussions about what should be included in a care and support plan […]
PRSB standards feature in NHS Digital webinars
PRSB is promoting the adoption of standards for hospital and emergency care discharge as part of a series of webinars hosted by NHS Digital. The first of these took place on 25 and 26 July while the third will be held in August. The webinars focus not only on PRSB standards, but also the emergency […]
PRSB works with INTEROPen to develop FHIR profiles
The PRSB is working closely with INTEROPen to provide a view on professional and patient priorities in the community’s drive to join up health and social care delivery. INTEROPen is collaborating with NHS Digital, the PRSB and others to create Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) ‘profiles’ and ‘extensions’ so that care settings in the UK are […]
Child health events survey
PRSB is supporting NHS England’s Digital Child Health Strategy through its work to develop a digital community child health record. Following a series of workshops, the PRSB is now conducting a survey for the final stage of the project and it is available online. Working with NHS Digital, the PRSB is developing the information sharing […]
Putting pharmacy information sharing into action
Spotlight on Wales: Sharing information on patient medications with community pharmacists after hospital discharge is helping to improve care, according to NHS Wales Informatics Service. Following the implementation of the e-discharge summary standard, many hospitals are sharing specific discharge information on medications with community pharmacists, provided they have the patient’s permission. This means that pharmacists […]
“Information sharing with pharmacists leads to safer care”
This month we have spoken to Stephen Goundrey-Smith, The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) informatics advisor and PRSB advisory board member, about the challenges of information sharing in pharmacy. What challenges does the pharmacy profession face? At present, there are around 11-12,000 community pharmacies in England, and some 54,000 pharmacists in England, Scotland and Wales. While […]
“The digital revolution is here and we must embrace it”
Keith McNeil, chief clinical information officer for health and social care talks to the PRSB about why setting standards are essential to the digital health strategy Q: What is your vision for digital health and care and what is your role as CCIO? The vision is to join up all the information available and to collect it in […]