I started at medical school the year Medscape.com started, 1995. Medscape was a journal and search engine for doctors. As I completed my first year
Author: Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Why store your GP records in Patients Know Best?
In 1988 I was diagnosed with a rare immune deficiency. It is the single most important thing a doctor needs to understand about my health if they are treating me. My GP, whose general practice looked after me since I arrived in Cambridge in 1986, made a note of this at some point in 1998.
A DECADE ON G-CLOUD: DELIVERING PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS AT SCALE
The first population-wide personal health record (PHR) contract was the G-Cloud contract of Patients Know Best in 2015.16 hospitals, 400 GP surgeries, 2.4 million people
Data sharing: the white elephant in the room
Last week, I added my perspective to an article in the BMJ supporting patient access to their medical records. Unsurprisingly, I am a strong proponent
Reflecting on Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s Milestone: 500,000 Patients Registered, 270 million test results released
Attending a customer’s programme board for the first time can be nerve-wracking. In June 2015, we had just signed North West London (NWL), who aimed
What if the health care system treated every day as Rare Disease Day
Today is Rare Disease Day. But health care is misunderstanding health by treating rare disease as the exception rather than the rule. Rare diseases are