NHS hospitals are 'unable to share medical records because they use different computer software' The NHS is risking patient safety because it can't get to grips with computers, a damning report has revealed.
Almost a quarter of hospitals still use paper records and those which have switched to IT systems have no standard – almost two dozen different systems are being used.
A report by Imperial College London found there were 11 million occasions last year on which patients went to appointments at hospitals which didn't have their records. The Daily Mail
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Almost a quarter of hospitals still use paper records and those which have switched to IT systems have no standard – almost two dozen different systems are being used.
A report by Imperial College London found there were 11 million occasions last year on which patients went to appointments at hospitals which didn't have their records. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Improving data sharing between acute hospitals in England: an overview of health record system distribution and retrospective observational analysis of inter-hospital transitions of care (open access) BMJ Open
- Patients at risk because NHS hospitals using different record-keeping systems Imperial College London
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