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FOI 5574 ICT

Does the trust have an electronic patient record?

How many clinical applications does your organisation use?

How many applications are fully digital i.e. no paper output to the physical health record?

How many applications produce an output that is stored in the physical health record?

How does the Trust manage compliance against data retention legislation for physical health records?

How does the trust manage compliance against data retention legislation for digital health records?

Do your clinical application systems facilitate automated monitoring and measurement of data retention compliance?

Does the trust have a data migration strategy?

Does the trust have a legacy application management policy?

Does the trust engage with patients around the management of their health record data? If so, how?

Does the trust currently provide or have plans to introduce any of the following?
Patient portal
Patient correspondence via email, e.g. appointment and clinic letters
Video consultations, e.g. Skype, Facetime
Online appointment management

Is the trust working with other partner organisations regionally to provide patient access to their digital health record online?

Does the trust have a strategy to ensure that it meets the target to deliver a paperless NHS by 2020?

Does the Trust have patient engagement groups?

Has the Trust conducted a data growth assessment for the next 5 years? If so, by what percentage does the trust anticipate its storage requirements will increase?

Does the Trust currently utilise cloud services to store patient data?

Did the trust consult patient groups before employing cloud services?

If not currently in place, does the trust plan to utilise cloud services to store patient data?(Please provide timescales for implementation.)

If not currently in place, will the trust consult patient groups before employing cloud services?

How many trust owned devices were impacted by the Wannacry cyber-attack? Please include medical devices.

See attached response FOI 5574

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