Today I was working with a patient charity to allow their patients to receive data from the national centre for treating these patients. “Can we
Category: Society
Social networks enable patients to be more involved in their healthcare
My article came out in the Guardian healthcarenetwork today. Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli explains how medical practitioners can make the most out of online patient-to-patient networks
Transparency: the latest panacea
Opening up NHS data to all will bring jobs, economic growth, innovation, a better health service, reduced health costs, and a new age in science. That
Help us tell the Department of Health how much you want patients to control their records
We are up for two awards this month, and both are because of our work on patient-controlled records. One of them needs your vote, but
Top down never works – it is time to let patients succeed with bottom up
Earlier this week, the UK’s National Audit Office issued its report The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of
For the disabled, digital is the bridge, not the divide
A common worry that healthy people voice is that patient-controlled records are a fine idea, but the truly vulnerable will be left behind by them.