This article in E-Health Insider discusses an ASP based EMR application called Lorenzo. iSoft, the company that developed Lorenzo has won major contracts with the National Program for IT in the UK (NPfIT). The UK arguably has the most advanced GP computing community in the world with many practices who have been using Electronic Medical Records for 20 years.
"Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records? 15 Apr 2008 GP computing has been one of the great success stories in patient care and the use of IT in the NHS. Since its earnest start in the early 1980s, GP records have gone from paper based narratives held in A5 Lloyd George envelopes to fully interactive records, capable of handling the complexities of modern patient care, including the Quality and Outcome Framework (QoF) used for performance related pay and its central reporting mechanism, Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS). Without the universal use of electronic GP records throughout the UK, neither the targets introduced in 1990, nor the 2003 new General Medical Services contract, would have been achievable.
Link: Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
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