The eHealth Programme aims to change the way in which information and related technology are used within NHSScotland in order to improve the quality of patient care.

Delivering the eHealth Programme is vital to support the shift from reactive, crisis management, acute-orientated care towards anticipatory, preventative and continuous care.

eHealth supports improvements in service delivery at the level of individual organisations and redesign of processes and roles. This impacts on both clinical and administrative staff and will affect all professional groups.

eHealth aims to improve patient care through advances in technology, resulting in better access to health information, joined-up GP and hospital services and quicker results such as lab tests and x-rays. However, it is not just about technology, it is about modernising processes and encouraging new ways of working.

The eHealth Programme is essentially a ‘programme of programmes’ and currently consists of numerous programmes, projects and services combined under the eHealth banner. These can be managed either directly by NHS Boards (including NSS) or by the Scottish Government.

Objectives of the eHealth Programme

• To enable all Boards to implement a clinical portal incrementally, improving the access to information in support of safer, more efficient and more effective care.
• To establish a Primary and Community care development fund and enable NHS Boards to use it to invest in information support for shifting the balance of care.
• To improve the management of patient journeys, encouraging integration of clinical and management systems to provide more effective, efficient and safer care.
• To improve the governance of investment and particularly the governance of benefits to ensure that decisions are affordable, implementable, usable and acceptable.
• To ensure we have an assurance strategy and information governance policies which support the efficient and effective use of existing and planned systems

This page has the following sub pages.

• Who We Are
• Governance Structure
• Divisions

April 25th, 2008