The RCP HIU is conducting a consultation to support the development of new standards for digital emergency department (ED) discharge summaries.

The RCP Health Informatics Unit discuss their forthcoming standardised discharge summary project, and why its time to tackle pressures in emergency departments.

Representatives from the RCP will attend the 19th European Health Forum Gastein, which takes place in Austria from 28 September 2016.

On Wednesday 5 October 2016 the RCP hosted the fourth in a series of events on patient safety, this time looking at digital technology and health informatics.

The director of the RCP's Health Informatics Unit, Professor John Williams, discusses what the recommendations of the 'Making IT work' report mean in practice.

The RCP welcomes the announcement by NHS England of a funding pot in excess of £100 million for the creation of global centres of digital excellence.

The RCP's Health Informatics Unit (HIU) announces support for the NHS' new Accessible Information Standard guidance, aimed at ensuring clearer health and care information for disabled people and their carers.

The RCP's Health Informatics Unit (HIU) examines what person-centred care means in an increasingly digital world.

Professor John Williams comments on the release of the 'Review of data security, consent and opt-outs' by the national data guardian, Dame Fiona Caldicott.

Today the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Health Informatics Unit (HIU) has published an NHS England funded review, looking at the landscape of personal electronic health records (PHRs) in the UK.