Information Management and Technology
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The SHA’s National Programme for IT team, working in partnership with Local Health Communities (LHCs), has a key role in developing the information and IT infrastructure to underpin the models of care set out in Healthy Ambitions.
What is needed to support delivery of Healthy Ambitions?
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The SHA’s NPfIT team aims to support delivery in the following ways:
- Delivering better, safer care: by ensuring that there is person-based information for clinical and care processes, which can be shared across organisational boundaries and available at the point of need, along with innovative technology to promote care closer to home
- Empowering staff to improve NHS performance: making information available to support research, planning and management, thereby improving the quality of care
- Empowering patients and the public: making information available about health, services, patients’ own health and wellbeing and providing patients with secure access to their own electronic records thereby increasing their involvement in shaping the NHS and the choices available to them.
The longer term strategic aims of the NPfIT team, working in partnership with LHCs, are identified below and include those outlined in the 2009/10 Operating Framework.
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