Within the two LHCs studied, there are areas in which substantial progress has been made in creating working forms of integrated care in healthcare pathways.
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Purpose
This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care.
Methods
Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified.… Read more >
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Electronic patient record systems serve many purposes for many different kinds of users. Four case studies are reported of the use made by healthcare staff of electronic patient record systems that supported healthcare pathways.… Read more >
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The history of computer applications is littered with examples of large and expensive IT systems failing when they were implemented in organisations.… Read more >
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The National Programme for IT is implementing standard electronic healthcare systems across the National Health Service Trusts in England. This paper reports the responses of the Trusts and their healthcare teams to the applications in the programme as they are being implemented.… Read more >
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how action learning concepts were used in two healthcare projects undertaken many decades apart.… Read more >
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has downgraded its 2017 growth forecast for the UK to 1.5% from a 1.6% estimate made in September, making Britain the weakest economy in the G7.… Read more >
We are thrilled with the uptake of Wisdom in Groups (WiG) places for April 2018 – we are now fully booked for April 2018.
Which begs the question, should we run another WiG in the Autumn of 2018?… Read more >
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Participation is often presented as a ‘good’ thing and a fairer way to represent views and opinions outside narrow confines of interest and expertise.… Read more >
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More about this organisation shortly; in this brief introduction I want to set out the scope and vision of this paper.