How will standards keep AI safe in the NHS?
A blog from co-written with our partner, HD Labs In this year’s budget, the Government pledged an additional £3.4bn to ramp up digitisation and automation in the NHS, motivated by the estimated £35bn in productivity savings technology offers over the next parliament.  Whilst technology and automation are a crucial enabler to achieve this short-term opportunity, […]
Empowering efficient and connected care with the PRSB e-Discharge Summary Standard
Nicola Cranfield, Clinical Solutions Lead and CSO at IMS MAXIMS, explains why other system suppliers should follow their example and become conformant against the PRSB’s e-Discharge Summary standard to improve sharing of information at discharge and enable continuity of care. Within IMS MAXIMS, we understand technology’s crucial role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and optimising […]
10 years of driving better health and care outcomes with information standards
Our CEO, Lorraine Foley, reflects on our 10th anniversary event on 21 September. On 21 September, having succumbed to COVID, I was relegated to watching our Annual General Meeting and 10th anniversary celebrations on a small screen from afar. I was disappointed as there was obviously such a great vibe in the room and […]
How can better information sharing between health and care settings improve diabetes care?
Sandra Baughan, Founder and Managing Director at Quic, currently enabling better management of diabetes through the development of digital care planning for long term conditions, blogged for us about the need for changing current practices in recording and sharing diabetes data between clinicians and care homes via an efficient data orchestration ecosystem. With the growing […]
Scotland’s data strategy aims to set the standard
With the recent publication of Scotland’s first Data strategy for Health and Social Care, Carol Sinclair, Chair of the Health and Social Care Data Board, sets out the key data standards commitments – and what it means for professionals and public. It’s long been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a […]
The importance of sharing information about people’s needs and wishes in palliative and end of life care
A blog by Dr Kath Lambert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust We will all experience death and dying but we can find it hard to talk to friends and family about it. As a palliative medicine consultant, I know that by talking to people and having honest conversations about […]
Improving population health management through data and individualised care
A guest blog by Ben Wilson, Product Solution Director at Orion Health. The NHS defines population health as ‘an approach aimed at improving the physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing of people, whilst reducing health inequalities within and across a defined population.’ While we may think that the management of population health takes a […]
Orion Health’s journey to become the first supplier conformant against PRSB’s Core Information StandardÂ
Today’s health and care is a team effort. Ensuring any member of a person’s care team can access the latest information about them is vital to providing joined-up care. PRSB’s Core Information Standard defines all the relevant information that should be shared for care in an integrated care system. Orion Health has achieved what no […]
Data changes lives – how information-sharing and recording can help transform social care
A guest blog from Katie Thorn, Project Lead at Digital Social Care While we are experiencing greater appetite for the use of digital data in healthcare, the demand is also becoming more prevalent in social care. Our report published with Skills for Care in 2021 informs that 20% of care organisations considered themselves as ‘digitally […]
Partnering with PRSB to accelerate standards adoption across the health and care system
The way we share and store our health and care information can directly impact the delivery of care plans and their outcomes. Standards are critical; ensuring information is recorded consistently and can be accessed by relevant professionals in the right place, at the right time. Their use has been pivotal to Yorkshire & Humber Care […]