So what does it all mean? – Part 5 – Summaries
I’ve been looking back over 20 years to a functional and useful patient summary across 9 different sources and three NHS Trusts.
Category: What does it all mean
So what does it all mean? – part 4 – Electronic records
Where should the meaning be stored?
Now I move to electronic records and explore some of the challenges that come with using modern databases to store health and records.
So what does it mean? – part 3 – forms
In this part of the “so what does it all mean?” series, I’m moving on from specific records to agreed forms designed to be filled in to become part of a person’s record. Part 1 of this series looked at …
So what does it all mean? – part 2 – hospital records
Case note written by Dr Charles West when treating 15 year old Harry Harries in 1861.
In part 1 of this “so what does it all mean?” series I gave an overview of the Lloyd George case note used in English General Practices from 1911. Now to move to hospitals. The illustrations are from the Historical …
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So what does it all mean? – part 1 – Lloyd George envelopes
The Lloyd George envelope was the mainstay of General Practice record keeping for a century. In the first post of the “What does it all mean?” series I look at it from a health informatics perspective and introduce a basic data model for the record.