Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London UK.
Clin Med (Lond). 2023 Jul;23(4):409. doi: 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0325.
As foundation doctors, we have often found ourselves informing patients that a certain aspect of their medical information cannot be immediately found, either because it is on an electronic system we cannot access, or it is in a hospital that is unlinked to our own. Unsurprisingly, this frequently leaves patients flabbergasted and confused. We started to wonder: if patients' data are entered onto an electronic system: where do those data go? If medical data are searched for, where do those data come from? Why are there so many hidden sources of information that clinicians cannot access? In an ever-increasing digital sphere, electronic data will be the future of holistic health and social care planning, impacting every clinician's day-to-day role. From electronic healthcare records to the use of artificial intelligence solutions, this article will serve as an introduction to how data flows in modern healthcare systems.
作为初级医生，我们经常发现自己要告诉患者，他们的某些医疗信息暂时无法找到，原因可能是这些信息存在我们无法访问的电子系统中，也可能是在与我们医院没有关联的另一家医院。毫不奇怪，这经常让患者感到惊愕和困惑。我们开始思考：如果将患者的数据输入电子系统：这些数据会去哪里？如果搜索医疗数据，这些数据来自哪里？为什么有这么多隐藏的信息来源，临床医生无法访问？在这个日益数字化的世界中，电子数据将成为整体健康和社会护理规划的未来，影响每个临床医生的日常角色。从电子医疗记录到人工智能解决方案的使用，本文将介绍现代医疗系统中的数据如何流动。
