IT DATA


boundaries to help reduce duplication, the amount of time spent waiting for information and, ultimately, improve safety and efficiency in the patient journey. “Just 18 months ago, the challenge that confronted the majority of NHS organisations was that they could have up to as many as 200 different IT systems that could not talk to each other,” he says. “Now their challenge is of a far greater scale, not only will many of their systems not exchange information but they will not communicate with other trusts, primary care, ambulance trusts, mental health and social care and even the patient.”


Christine Whitehouse, MD of Stalis, a provider of healthcare data management services, confirms that this is precisely what commissioners are asking for. “We’ve spoken with clinical commissioning groups and discovered they want a way of intelligently linking data from different systems into one easy-to-use place, to save clinical and administrative time, whilst providing better quality of information,” she says. “A fully informed clinician armed with instant access to a patient record, and a comprehensive view of a patient’s history across other healthcare settings along the care pathway, will be more empowered


to make the most appropriate treatment decision. This can only improve health outcomes and lead to a safer, more efficient and effective health service.”


Clinicians reading this magazine may not have had to deal with data technology in any big way to date. While GPs are used to seeing the patient record in front of them and making a medical decision based on a one-to-one consultation, commissioners have a different set of requirements. Parslow explains: “In commissioning, we want broader information; we want large data; we want to be able to say: ‘For this particular region, what are the outcomes


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