Care Portal

The North of Scotland Care Portal programme was established in 2018 with the following objectives:

• Supporting the regional agenda through consolidated electronic citizen data, with scope for developing electronic regional patient pathways
• Implementation and ongoing development of a real time electronic health and care record
• Provision of a unified view of health and care data from previously disparate primary, acute and social care systems across the North Board areas
• Improving patient safety and care through wider, real time, accessible citizen data enabling quicker and better informed clinical decisions

Ongoing deliverables include:

• Roll out to Tayside and Western Isles user base.  As of November 2022, Orkney have access to the system. 
• Regional patient pathways
• Increased collaborative functionality
• Access roll out to Community Pharmacies, Dentists and Optometrists and Major Trauma

Longer term objectives include:

• Western Isles integration of SCI Store and Patient Admin System
• Social Care integration
• GP systems integration
• Moving hosting of the system to the Cloud

Capacity and a lack of funding has meant some deliverables cannot be achieved in the short term. These remain as longer term objectives and will be considered as part of regional E-Health discussions over the coming months.

Other deliverables are being taken forward by substantive staff or through the regional hub (as outlined above).

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Page last updated 18th January 2023