Clinical support in primary and ambulatory care: Canadian lessons to be learned from the UK patient Summary Care Record (SCR) initiative.
There is an increasing requirement for interdisciplinary teams to share patient data to ensure optimal care. Healthcare providers in all settings from Emergency Medicine to long-term care management need access to patient information. In the UK, developments to address the need for information sharing have uncovered issues that the Canadian eHealth establishment would do well to heed when undertaking its own initiatives.
Sutton
Chris
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Courtyard Group, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Malovec
Shannon
S
D000416:Alberta; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D011320:Primary Health Care; D006113:United Kingdom