How ICT delivers efficiency in health administration

Integrating practice management software with document services is leading the way in modernising GP and primary healthcare, but with it, data confidentiality has become more important than ever, writes Jason Walsh

Orla Cafferty, director of Datascan Document Services

The past few years have seen enormous changes in the nature of primary medicine, with technology changing and advancing in every area of patient care. In addition, and as a result, there is greater awareness among medical professionals and indeed patients about the need for confidentiality and integrity of patient information.

The compliance landscape is also changing - and changing fast.

Enforcement of the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) is fast approaching ...