Health Select Committee establishes enquiry into Electronic Patient Record
The Commons Health Select Committee is to hold an inquiry into the Electronic Patient Record being provided by Connecting for Health.
“The inquiry will focus particularly on the following areas:
• What patient information will be held on the new local and national electronic record systems, including whether patients may prevent their personal data being placed on systems;
• Who will have access to locally and nationally held information and under what circumstances;
• Whether patient confidentiality can be adequately protected;
• How data held on the new systems can and should be used for purposes other than the delivery of care e.g. clinical research; and
• Current progress on the development of the NHS Care Records Service and the National Data Spine and why delivery of the new systems is up to 2 years behind schedule.”
The deadline for submissions is Friday 16 March 2007.
Having long argued for a bottom-up approach to its development rather than the edifice with rotten foundations we have been lumbered with, it is time for me to start writing.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
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