Computerised routinely collected primary care data: essential for patient access to records, quality improvement and research

Abstract

Another interesting issue of Informatics in Primary Care - with articles ranging from some potential advantages of poly-hierarchical coding; through emerging models of key factors in implementing electronic patient record systems; how we share health data and information with our patients - bearing in mind their variable access to and use of the internet; and how we might best utilise practice data for quality improvement and research. © 2010 PHCSG, British Computer Society.