Preparing for healthcare and socialcare integration: some
current barriers to ICT-based sharing of information
The execution of national strategies by IM&T-implementation
teams at local levels are being hampered by insufficient
information and the slow resolution of contradictions resulting
from revised legislation and NHS policies. Philip Firth explains.
keywords: healthcare and
socialcare integration, information sharing, interoperability
standards, strategy implementation, national programme for it,
integrated care records service.
abstract
Several information-management and communications strategies for
England in the last five years emphasise the importance of seamless
service delivery in healthcare and socialcare. Until adequate
funding has been identified, and key issues such as data protection
and patient consent have been tackled, healthcare and socialcare
organisations will be ill prepared to take on this complex task.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2003; 20(5): 21–4.
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