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Paper will continue to play a central role in the NHS, despite mandates from the Health Secretary to make more use of electronic patient records.
What is possibly much worse: we may end up with a paper and an electronic system running in parallel – with all the dangers of data falling ‘between the cracks′.
That was the warning this week from Emma Stockwell, a partner at international law firm Hill Dickinson.
Dickinson was speaking to delegates at an event in London, the Westminster Health Forum on the implementation of electronic health records in the NHS.
http://www.bj-hc.co.uk/bjhc-news/news-detail.html?news=2701&lang=en&feed=130
What is possibly much worse: we may end up with a paper and an electronic system running in parallel – with all the dangers of data falling ‘between the cracks′.
That was the warning this week from Emma Stockwell, a partner at international law firm Hill Dickinson.
Dickinson was speaking to delegates at an event in London, the Westminster Health Forum on the implementation of electronic health records in the NHS.
http://www.bj-hc.co.uk/bjhc-news/news-detail.html?news=2701&lang=en&feed=130