The Department of Health’s NHS information strategy, released last week, blazes a trail for other government departments by outlining the department’s approach to using open data as a way to improve service delivery. Although the strategy (see box) doesn’t envisage giving people new rights to access data currently kept out of the public domain, it does require NHS service providers to improve the way they collect, hold and release information – with the intention of improving patients’ experiences, providers’ performances, and the opportunities for private companies. The challenges facing those implementing the strategy will provide lessons for the rest of government, and help shape the future of the coalition’s open data initiative.
http://network.civilservicelive.com/pg/features/csw/read/658968/open-datas-healthy-life-signalsNHS Information Strategy: key points
- Create a single comprehensive online ‘portal’ – provided by government from 2013 – to present information on health, care, support services and public health;
- Move away from a national NHS IT system to locally-commissioned systems;
- Give all NHS patients secure online access to their personal GP records by 2015;
- Ensure that all GPs make available electronic booking and cancelling of appointments, and ordering of repeat prescriptions, by 2015;
- Introduce systems to ensure that medical information is recorded only once – at first contact with professional staff, and using nationally-defined data standards – and shared securely between healthcare providers.
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