Some Core Digital Capabilities Could Benefit from Functional Upgrades

20/02/2025

In Records, Assessments & Plans, while the healthcare sector has made some progress towards fully structured digital records capable of supporting computational use cases like business / clinical intelligence, population health analyses and AI applications, social care organisations have fallen behind in this regard.

Driven by digital transformation within a subset of participating organisations, significant progress has been made in the Medicines Optimisation section, specifically in the field of ePrescribing of both standard and complex medicines across Acute, Primary Care and Mental Health; unfortunately, Community services remained unaffected by this positive development. 

Bar chart depicting degree of digitisation in records, assessments and plans.
Bar chart comparing 2024 data on eprescribing with 2024 data.

by Rebecca Hawkins


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