This email contains news for Healthcare Gateway customers No Images? Click here Enhancing care through electronic documentsThe Lancashire Person Record Exchange Service (LPRES) are using the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) to send clinical documents to over 300 GP practices. LPRES is a comprehensive Shared Care Record, which integrates health and social care organisations across Cumbria and Lancashire. They wanted to make it easier for Trusts to share crucial information such as test results and discharge summaries with GPs. By sharing documents electronically, they felt that this would increase data security and improve communication across the region. Document Services was identified as the perfect solution and they went live with the service in November 2017. Read the full case study. “MIG Document Services allows health and care organisations to exchange any type of clinical document, reduce clinical risk and improve continuation of care. This project is great example of how the NHS can benefit from electronic document transfer and we’re looking forward to supporting LPRES with the Lancashire and South Cumbria STP digital strategy.” In the newsLocal Health and Care Record Exemplar bid invites issuedA small number of regional health and care collaborative communities across England have been invited to bid for national investment in shared health and care records. Read more. Jeremy Hunt promises £75m for e-prescribing accelerationThe Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised a £75 million investment from the government to help NHS hospitals implement e-prescribing systems. Read more. Keep up to dateHuddersfield and Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) sign up for the MIGNHS Calderdale CCG and NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG have signed a one-year contract for MIG services. The contract includes the Detailed Care Record service, which will be used by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. This increases the MIG footprint in the Yorkshire region to ten CCGs. Find out more. Tell us what you think about the MIGWe're giving customers the opportunity to tell us what they think of the MIG and how it could be improved in the future. To share your feedback, please complete a short survey, which should take less than five minutes. Service delivery updateScheduled maintenance Service desk demonstrations Meet the team - Chris HedgesJob title - Marketing Manager When did you join the company and what's your role? What do you enjoy most about your role? Interesting fact EventsSave the date – Sharing data for effective care We’re running a MIG showcase events in Durham on 10 May. This event will focus on healthcare interoperability and explain how the MIG provides an effective way of sharing patient information locally. It will demonstrate how the MIG has been successfully deployed across the North East, to connect different health and care organisations. Find out more and book your place. RemindersMaking the most of the MIGWe’ve launched MIG awareness sessions and a marketing communication package to help our customers maximise the potential of their MIG services. ReStart Viper360 – Integrating care across NottinghamshireOur new case study explains how the MIG has enhanced the Viper360® application to help Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Phased roll out of SNOMED CT starts in AprilThe implementation of SNOMED CT in general practice is due to commence from April 2018 with a phased roll-out approach. |