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Webinar: Community Pharmacies and the Dorset Care Record

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Come and listen to Amanda Moores, Dorset Local Pharmaceutical Committee (Dorset LPC) chief officer and a community pharmacist David Rose, from Marnhull Pharmacy, in conversation with the Dorset Care Record’s communications and engagement officer Tony McDougal on how community pharmacists are using the shared care record.

Community pharmacies in Dorset have been able to access the Dorset Care Record for the past 18 months, which has prompted national interest.

Among the issues under the spotlight will be encouraging national chains to get involved, how can pharmacists get the most out of share care records and how can we encourage more community pharmacies to get involved.

The free webinar will take place on Monday 28 February from 12.30-1.15pm and is open to all.

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Webinar – community pharmacy and the Dorset Care Record

 

Wessex Care Records/Orion Health medications hackathon

Hacking further towards medications interoperability in the UK

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Orion Health has been an ardent supporter of INTEROPen, a collaborative group created to unite suppliers and the NHS in the pursuit of interoperability, since its creation in 2016. On July 14th-15th, the company joined forces with Wessex Care Records to take part in the latest hackathon centred on medications interoperability. Here’s what was learnt:

The first morning of the hackathon kicked off with introductory presentations from INTEROPen, OneLondon, Wessex LHCR and NHSX. David Hancock, INTEROPen industry co-chair opened with a reflection on INTEROPen’s journey since 2016, and its continued importance as an organisation in balancing the demand push and the supply pull for interoperability in healthcare. He reflected that INTEROPen is still going strong four years on due to the complexity of the challenge, quoting Bob Wachter, “implementing health IT today is one of the most complex adaptive changes in the history of healthcare, and perhaps of any industry. Adaptive change involves substantial and long-lasting engagement between the leaders implementing the changes and the individuals on the front lines who are tasked with making them work.*” With INTEROPen’s mix of both vendor and NHS leadership and membership, the organisation is uniquely placed to encourage testing and adoption of emerging standards across the board. Continue reading “Hacking further towards medications interoperability in the UK” →

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Wessex Care Record – Partnership working key to success

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Wessex Care Records (WCR) is one of the first Local Health and Care Records (LHCR) programmes in England. Its aim is to create an information-sharing environment to improve the patient and healthcare professional experience by joining up records and data and making them accessible for individual care to people across Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Having recently completed its first year with the full team on board and hosted an annual review event for stakeholders, Clinical Lead, Dr Mark Kelsey and Programme Director, Astrid Fairclough reflect on the programme’s progress and future. Continue reading “Wessex Care Record – Partnership working key to success” →