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Report says summary care records do not seem to provide any benefits for patients or doctors
Author(s)Michael Cross
Journal titleBritish Medical Journal, vol 340, no 7760, 19 June 2010
Pagesp 1323
Sourcewww.bmj.com BMJ2010;340:c3230
KeywordsNational Health Service ; Information technology.
AnnotationThe Department of Health (DH) has published 'The devil's in the detail: final report of the Independent Evaluation of the Summary Care Record and Health Space Programmes', an evaluation carried out at University College London (UCL) by a team led by Trisha Greenhalgh. This news item notes how the 234-page report identifies examples of "dissonances" between what policy makers and IT experts expected of the summary care record (SCR) (see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/scriefullreport.pdf). At present, the SCR contains data on prescriptions and allergies; and even when available, the SCR was accessed in only around a fifth of encounters. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-100629203 A
ClassmarkL4: UVB

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