The impact of eHealth on Healthcare Professionals and Organisations: A National Perspective. Eccles S. eHealth week 2010 (Barcelona: CCIB Convention Centre; 2010)

1. A National Perspective
Dr Simon Eccles, Medical Director
NHS Connecting for Health

2. What is England doing?
• Healthcare systems • Infrastructure
• GP systems inc. • N3 – health service
transfers broadband
• Electronic booking • NHS Spine
• Mental health systems • Personal
• Community systems Demographics inc
• Hospital systems NHS Number
• Digital imaging • Access Control
• Summary Care Record • Secure e-mail
• E-Pathways

3. How far have we got?
• Healthcare systems • Infrastructure
• GP systems inc. • N3 – health service
transfers broadband
• Electronic booking • NHS Spine
• Mental health systems • Personal
• Community systems Demographics inc
• Hospital systems NHS Number
• Digital imaging • Access Control
• Summary Care Record • Secure e-mail
• E-Pathways

4. How far have we got?
• Healthcare systems • Infrastructure
• GP systems inc. • N3 – health service
transfers broadband
• Electronic booking • NHS Spine
• Mental health systems • Personal
• Community systems Demographics inc
• Hospital systems NHS Number
• Digital imaging • Access Control
• Summary Care Record • Secure e-mail
• E-Pathways

5. What does it mean to patients?
• Channel shifts
• Control
• Access

6. Channel Shifting

8. What does it mean for
clinicians?
• Data availability
• Data sharing
• Knowledge support

9. And for population health?

10. And for care planning?
• The data fire hose
• Options for data amalgamation as never before

11. Issues
• Standardisation v. localisation
• Datasets
• Pathways
• Differing views on sharing
• Hospital v. family doctors
• Financial Circumstances

12. Costs v. Values
• Banking and text
messages v. blood
test results
• RFID tags in
supermarkets v.
hospitals

13. How will this change care?
• GP to GP
• Communicator
• SMS messages
• Summary Care Record
• The power of data to initiate internal change