Vision for the Future

The foundation of the Vision roadmap is enhanced patient care, which will be achieved through a combination of information sharing and improved access to practices for patients.

Vision Online Services is a suite of patient-centric facilities that allows patients to manage their appointments, repeat medication and demographic information online, even when the practice is closed.

Practices will also be able to post patient satisfaction surveys and other surveys online to improve the opportunity for two-way communications between the practice and its patients.

Sharing information with Vision360

Vision 360 is a secure repository that allows patient information from Vision 3 practices and other sources to be collated and stored securely. This locality scale dataset can be used for reporting and summarised views of the data can, where appropriate, be shared with clinicians and care providers outside of general practice.

Patient data is exported from Vision 3 and other systems into the Vision 360 where it is stored securely.

Vision 360 applications will allow easy access to relevant, summarised information for authorised clinicians in wider healthcare settings, such as A&E departments, walk-in centres and GP-led health centres.

Data security is critically important. Vision 360 adheres to NHS security standards, and can only be accessed by authorised users using web browsers on computers configured with an N3 connection. Practices can decide what information they want to contribute and can specify sensitive Read codes that are not to be shared (such as those concerned with pregnancy, sexual health and HIV).

Vision 360 supports ‘Patient opt out’ so that their information is not available for review outside the practice. The system also includes a strict audit regime to ensure that details of all interactions with the patient record data are accurately logged.

Vision 360 is developed in Dundee, and will be used in the near future to feed a Clinical Dashboard that will allow clinicians across NHS Tayside to access patient information at various points of care.

For further information about Vision or Vision 360, please send an email to marketing@inps.co.uk

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