24 June, 2014 (15:32) | hand held records, Initiatives, Interoperability, Paper Records, Patient-Centered Care, S.IN.B.A.Ds, Standardisation, WISDAM | By: rupertfawdry
The WISDAM Personal Health record is now available for purchase. Cost is £14.50, including shipping & handling. It comes with a free “Pack of Potential Pages” and several other items under the title “Some Extra Wisdam?” To order, please print out and complete this order form and mail it, together with a cheque, Postal Order or International Money Order […]
Tags: community care, hand held records, interoperability, patient records, patient-centered care, personal health records, social care, social care records, WISDAM
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28 May, 2014 (10:24) | hand held records, Initiatives, Paper Records, Patient-Centered Care, WISDAM | By: rupertfawdry
The latest version of our WISDAM personal health questionnaire is now available for downloading to road test – get your copy here. This free download of the standard set of WISDAM questions is intended for filing in section 5 of the full WISDAM record; however, if you just want to use parts of the questionnaire […]
Tags: hand held records, patient records, patient-centered care, questionnaires, WISDAM
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28 March, 2014 (11:53) | EPR, hand held records, Maternents, maternity care, Midwifery, Paper Records | By: Helga Perry
An interesting systematic review has recently been published by a group of Australian authors: HAWLEY, G et al. In a maternity shared-care environment, what do we know about the paper hand-held and electronic health record: a systematic literature review. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2014; 14: 52 The authors noted “a surprising gap in knowledge surrounding data […]
Tags: electronic health records, hand held records, maternents, midwives, paper versus digital
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17 September, 2013 (13:52) | EPR, hand held records, IT fallacies, Nightmares!, Paper Records | By: rupertfawdry
In retrospect, it’s so obvious, yet no-one seems to have been ready to think through the following: A. Electronic Records EITHER “High Security” but “Minimal Access” i.e. access only by the owner of the record and no-one else – Never, ever any Instant Duplication of Data (but how to stop that?) OR “Useful Access” but […]
Tags: electronic health records, EPR, hand held records, patient records, security
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29 April, 2013 (09:12) | Computers are Magic, Data management, Data quality, EPR, hand held records, Paper Records, Standardisation | By: rupertfawdry
Michael Kauka is the CEO of Avaz Group LLC, a leading provider of patient documentation services and technology, and a vocal proponent of electronic records — by any name — and of standards of data. Here are my responses to the seven advantages of electronic records listed in his Comparison of computerized patient record CPR, […]
Tags: computers are magic, data quality, data standards, electronic health records, EPR, hand held records
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5 April, 2013 (13:23) | Casenotes, Information needs, Interoperability, Paper Records, Patient-Centered Care | By: rupertfawdry
My “Personal View” that a unified paper record of health and social care would improve communication among professionals and institutions has today been published in the BMJ (BMJ 2013;346:f2064). The publication licence allows its permission on my own website, so here is the text. Click here to view it on the BMJ website. Pregnant women throughout Britain […]
Tags: elderly, hand held records, housebound, patient records, patient-centered care
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30 January, 2013 (18:13) | Casenotes, hand held records, Interoperability, IT fallacies, Paper Records | By: rupertfawdry
It may come as a surprise to learn that for over 20 years throughout Britain there has been only one whole group of people in receipt of healthcare that possesses a fully inter-operative and universally accessible record and with open access available to all those providing care: every expectant mother. Mothers and children in many […]
Tags: computers are magic, hand held records, interoperability, paperwork
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10 December, 2012 (13:40) | Casenotes, hand held records, Initiatives, Interoperability, Paper Records, Patient-Centered Care, S.IN.B.A.Ds | By: rupertfawdry
Having seen the incredible inefficiencies whenever my 99 year old mother made her many trips to the hospital via an ambulance I was amazed that my mother, even in her own home, had so many separate paper records with her. Even when the ambulance staff did have the sense to take the main care record […]
Tags: elderly, hand held records, housebound, interoperability, patient records, patient-centered care, social care records
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15 November, 2012 (09:55) | hand held records, Initiatives, Interoperability, Paper Records, Patient-Centered Care, S.IN.B.A.Ds | By: Helga Perry
We’re about to launch a new wiki initiative, taking into account the fact that the future will not be entirely paperless/paper-light. We call it WISDAM: With Individual: Social, Demographic And Medical Most current healthcare and social ICT systems are based on institutions or organisations. The WISDAM concept is based on the fact that the master […]
Tags: hand held records, paperwork, personal health records, social care records, WISDAM
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30 May, 2012 (09:10) | Casenotes, child health records, EPR, hand held records, IT fallacies, paediatric data, Paper Records | By: rupertfawdry
I seem to be increasingly overhearing comments on a plan to provide an electronic version of “The Red Book,” by which I understand the ‘smaller than A5’ landscape floppy red cover booklet which now seems, as a paper document, to be universal for children throughout the UK. Only trouble is that everyone seems to think […]
Tags: child health record, EPR, hand held records, personal health records, Red Book
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