Comment by closewith
1 month ago
I'm a proponent of EHRs but not necessarily of centralised medical records, which have not been shown to improve outcomes and which do impose serious privacy risks on patients.
HealthLink is a messaging system and stores no EHRs at all. eHealth is the National EHR programme aiming to roll out EHRs by 2030 nationwide.
It will be a no-opt-out centralised EHR and combined social care record.
> HealthLink is a messaging system and stores no EHRs at all. eHealth is the National EHR programme aiming to roll out EHRs by 2030 nationwide.
This is bad (from my perspective, as someone who's moved a lot and thus has medical records scattered all over).
> It will be a no-opt-out centralised EHR and combined social care record.
This is probably the right approach, even though I'm sceptical that it will be delivered effectively.