Integrating electronic healthcare records of armed forces personnel: Developing a framework for evaluating health outcomes in England, Scotland and Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) are created to capture summaries of care and contact made to healthcare services. EHRs offer a means to analyse admissions to hospitals for epidemiological research. In the United Kingdom (UK), England, Scotland and Wales maintain separate data stores, which are administered and managed exclusively by devolved Government. This independence results in harmonisation challenges, not least lack of uniformity, making it difficult to evaluate care, diagnoses and treatment across the UK. To overcome this lack of uniformity, it is important to develop methods to integrate EHRs to provide a multi-nation dataset of health.

Objective

To develop and describe a method which integrates the EHRs of Armed Forces personnel in England, Scotland

SUBMITTER: Leightley D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5887874 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature