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Better, more convenient patient care – Dorset Care Record introduces new system for primary care information

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Health and social care professionals using the Dorset Care Record are now receiving GP data in a different way that is in-line with GP Connect standards.

The system has replaced the traditional Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) system. It aims to support better clinical care by opening up information and data held within GP practice IT systems for use across health and social care. Continue reading “Better, more convenient patient care – Dorset Care Record introduces new system for primary care information” →

Moving to GP Connect

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Our team have been working closely and at pace with Wessex Care Records and Orion Health to introduce a GP Connect standard to replace the current MIG primary care system. Ian Haywood, Wessex Care Records’ business analyst talks about some of the benefits associated with the changes in our latest blog.

Having access to Primary Care (GP) data is a significant part of why the DCR is so useful to clinicians.  Since its inception, the DCR has accessed GP information via an interface provided by Healthcare Gateway, known as the MIG, and this has been hugely successful in providing a level of information previously inaccessible to many Health and Social care clinicians.

In recent years NHS Digital, and with the creation and support of NHSX, has pushed the interoperability agenda further, with a huge amount of focus on better enabling primary care information to be shared with other NHS and Social Care organisations to support direct care. Continue reading “Moving to GP Connect” →