What is Care.Data? In January 2014, NHS England announced a new scheme to collect patient information from different parts of the healthcare system and store it in a central database managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The HSCIC has been collecting patient data from hospitals since the 1980s, but under the…
Data management has several applications within the healthcare industry, and it affects service managers, commissioners, physiotherapists and performance managers. Healthcare data may be difficult to wrangle. However, there are tips for understanding both the applications and issues of data management within healthcare. 1. Ticking a Box Many clinicians focus on patient interface rather than data…
