NHS COLLABORATES WITH PRIVATE HEALTH ON SHARING PATIENT DATA

Computer Weekly - (London) Work has begun on establishing a set of data standards to enable private healthcare patients’ data to be shared with the NHS
NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) have unveiled plans to collaborate on an initiative to ensure consistency of patient data. The Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt) aims to integrate data on privately funded healthcare into NHS systems and standards for the first time. NHS Digital said this will address a long-standing concern about the lack of visibility of quality in private care and will promote the completeness of patient records where some private care has been received...>>>