Has any work been put into uniform
indexing of scanned records?
At present (or at any rate before 1.4.13)
every practice seemed to be doing their own thing – and even within a practice
looking for information within a series of scanned letters was very time
comsuming.
If there is going to be a national
roll-out of digitising old records, how will this – and the re-indexing of
already digitised records/letters – be managed?
How is this being handled in Scotland?
Mary
Hawking
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Sent: 05 September 2015 08:23
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Subject: Re: Electronic records /
Lloyd George Envelopes
This is exactly why my practice - on behalf of my entire CCG (69
prActices) put in a bid for digitising of Lloyd George Records (using St Helen and Knowsley's
e-LGS http://www.e-lgs.sthk.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx)
through the Infrastructure Improvement bid. But the number of hoops, caveats,
riders and constrictions placed by NHS-England made it impossible to progress.
So short sighted!
Mike
Sent from my iPhone5 (iOS8)
If every practice could scan and destroy
all their notes (supposing...) then utilise the space in the surgery thereby
released, imagine the total estate/floorspace it would release.
Apart from everything else we probably
have 20-25m2 put over to Lloyd
George storage. Enough for
1-2 consulting rooms etc.... Multiply by x,000 practices.
I spoke with Lord
Darzi about it some years ago and
he was interested but it got lost in the snowstorm of other stuff I guess...
Falkland Surgery Monks
Lane Newbury RG14 7DF
Tel 01635 279972 Fax
01635 279973
Agree no national support to retro scan.
There is a whole area in my opinion
GP 2 GP not perfect
No quality check on transfer of doc man practices.
S1 printed output is Horlicks
.. No agreed HSCIC format for output ..visually it is a 'mare
Surely on someone's task list to sort?
Mark
On 2 Sep 2015 1:46 pm, "Andrew Lee"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
We frequently receive
records for newly registered patients that are supposedly entirely electronic
but they transfer by printing out and we find there's lots of information
missing because they haven't printed out everything eg letters, and we also
find many records coded as summarised that have important diagnoses /events
uncoded and information is only found in the paper record. Trouble is that the
weakest link for any practice (and for patients) is the stewardship of the
records by the practice(s) before you.
Hi everyone
Very interested in your views on this...
I've been discussing the issue of electronic records…and subsequently the lack
of need for the paper ‘Lloyd
George envelopes’ which have been
used for many years. My view is that once paper records have been scanned
into the system and checked to ensure that they have scanned 100%
correctly…there is no need to keep the corresponding paper records.
There was some resistance to this approach from some quarters as it was felt
that the paper Lloyd George envelope should still be retained...this seems at
odds with the push to 'paperless NHS' by 2018…but did get me thinking. Am
I missing something? Does the paper envelope need to be retained for
tracking reasons?
Of course - I need to make it clear - if paper records have not been scanned
and are only available in paper medium, then this is a different matter
altogether - they need to be retained.
What I’m wondering is…in terms of the practice you are in, do the paper records
get used anymore? Is it a case of much is electronically scanned / held
and there is minimum requirement for paper? Do the paper envelopes
provide a tracking system that would be lost if we destroyed it?
Any thoughts / concerns gratefully received!
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