Ross Milhench, ICT strategic business partner at Manchester City Council, discusses the development of the Greater Manchester Care Record.
The information sharing platform gives health and care workers easy access to patient information.
Speaking at UKAuthority's Data4Good conference with Andy Barrow, chief technology officer at ANS, he explained how the care record provides information from range of health and care services, including primary and social care, community and mental health, and specialist operations like the North West Ambulance Service. As a result, patients no longer have to keep repeating their medical history to each professional in different organisations, and clinicians are better equipped to identify patterns and plan care more effectively to meet the patients’ needs.
The platform has been used to support Covid-19 track and trace activities and moving forward they want to enable residents to have access to their own health record.
Read the full story here or catch up with his presentation now
The three-day Data4Good online event explored how the public sector has harnessed data in the Covid-19 response, and what this means for data sharing across the public sector in our 'new normal'. Speakers from local and central government and the NHS took part.
You can see the full programme including presentations and videos here.
For the ANS perspective on how the NHS and local government can share data for better healthcare, watch the introductory video here
And for details on how ANS can help you bring your digital ambitions to life with cloud, apps and data, visit: https://info.ans.co.uk/cloud-apps-data
