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https://nww.stuff.nhs.uk Or Whither NHS net Why? Long personal involvement Central to all the changes that surround us Knowledge is power Pretending it isn’t going to affect us is not an option Why? Not for coding clerks. Who don’t have a long term future. Not just for the IT department. For us all, clinical workers and management workers alike. What? The NHS plan. Information for health. 1998 Our LIS. Our local funding. Building the information core. Jan 2001. Other bits from all over. Strands in All This Communications Records Information Strands in All This Maybe money? New Ways of Working Not bolting computers onto existing practices About redesigning work Redesigning care New pathways in the jargon NET Targets Secondary care Clinical and support staff; 25% have desktop access by now Really is 20% ‘ish 100% by 2002 Primary care GPs and managers 95% practices connected by now Really is 80% ‘ish 90% desktop access by now Really 50% ‘ish All 100% by 2002 Uses Now Email Net browsing Information source Fax out (doesn’t work!) NSTS (not that reliable!) Reading the stuff the NHSe no longer publishes – cures insomnia. National address book? GP registration links. GP IOS links – for the brave. Security Lags behind Caldicott Awareness Safe havens etc etc National audit scheduled for Dec 2001 To BS7799 NHS cryptography Roll out spring 2002 Public key encryption What Next? – Uses of NHS net National priorities are pathology requests and reports. Then xray reports and requests. Booking. Discharge information. Jargon EPR Electronic Patient Record ? Attainable EHR Electronic health record ? Holy grail Clinical Terminologies Coding viz classifications Read 3 Ends 2003 SNOMED – CT Starts 2003 ? Legacy coding and classifications EPR Level 3 Integrated patient master index. PAS. Departmental systems (all departments) Electronic clinical orders and results reporting. Prescribing software. Multi-professional care pathways. EPR – Primary Care RFA99 leg