Policy document
February 8th 2016

Electronic Health Records

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Sarah Bunn, Jennifer Crane and POST
A POSTnote which explains the plans to introduce electronic health records for everyone. As well as background on what information such records will contain, the paper discusses the opportunities and challenges implementing them will involve.

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Topics in this document

Electronic health record Health care National Health Service EMIS Health NHS Digital Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland Summary Care Record Medicine Human activities Health economics Health Patient NHS England NHS Connecting for Health Health informatics Hospital Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Healthcare management Health sciences Department of Health and Social Care Medical record Addenbrooke's Hospital Healthcare industry Information privacy General practitioner Government Information Commissioner's Office Public sphere Care Quality Commission Privacy

Related SDGs

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

Target 3.8

Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

Related COFOG Divisions

7: Health 7.6: Health n.e.c.

Cites research funded by

Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology 1 Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología 1 Canadian Institutes of Health Research 1 Cancer Research UK 1 New York State Department of Health 1 Wellcome Trust 1

Citations

Cited by 12 other policy documents (10 of them are from other policy sources)

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Uses license: Open Parliament Licence

Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0

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