The RCP's Health Informatics Unit is currently hosting a consultation to seek views from parents and carers, health and care professionals and industry on the content of a new set of standards for a digital health records for children.
In support of NHS Sustainability Day, the RCP highlights how healthcare sustainibility has become synonymous with money and how some simple changes could reap large environmental rewards.
A personal health record (PHR) is a digital tool enabling individuals to manage and maintain their own healthcare, recording their own data, communicating with care services and accessing records.
'Personal health record (PHR) – User insights' is a new report aimed at helping healthcare professionals, providers and commissioners better understand how the public use personal health records.
Views are being sought through two online surveys to inform the development of proposed data standards for recording alcohol and tobacco use in electronic patient records.
The RCP Health Informatics Unit discusses the importance of outpatients letters and why it is important that it is brought together with the convenience of technology to create new standards for communication.
Today, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has launched Primary care: Time to take a breath, the UK’s first ever primary care snapshot audit assessing the clinical effectiveness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) care in Wales.
