Post by Gareth Hughes on Oct 3, 2018 9:24:05 GMT -5
Hello NAEP members,
Just wondering if there is any guidance, standards or documentation on how equipment providers should package "our" data and migrate it safely when a commissioning service decides to move to a new equipment provider (Medequip, NRS, British Red Cross, Millbrook, Rosscare etc).
Several things are niggling me, and it doesn't help that I have an IT background, prior to re-training as a clinician:
a) It's NHS and Social Care (and people's) private data - does it stop existing on a previous providers systems? If not, how long should it reside for, and what purposes is it retained (i.e. legal only) or can the provider use it for historical/commercial analysis?
b) The completeness of the data set that is transferred to a new providers systems. What is lost (clinical reasoning forms, specific access instructions to a property, violence and aggression notes, order histories, order quotes, product descriptions)? How is sensitive data identified, matched to data fields and protected when it is imported into a new software platform?
c) As more clinical records and notes move online, is it essential/important that we retain a minimum dataset for equipment prescription and history, no matter which provider we use?
These are just a few elementary thoughts, but the virtual equipment data service in present form strikes me as an area sorely lacking on standards and guidance. Some standardisation may help to ensure that key information is accurate and securely ported between systems with the minimum of fuss.
Thoughts from anyone else?