words of WISDAM from the Electronic Encyclopaedia of Personal Data (EEPD)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]