With clinical effectiveness increasingly measured by the ability of healthcare organisations to provide high-quality care in a timely fashion, our Chief Medical Officer, Dr Saif Abed, provides his view on healthcare’s most important resource for effectiveness – data. Read Dr Abed’s article for his first-hand account of how the NHS’ move to digital has actually just shifted paper (and the inherent problems of sharing data) online. Dr Abed argues that multiple data silos still exist – linked to applications across multiple departments and organisations within the health service. This is in turn having an impact on health providers’ ability to provide care across organisations.
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