Delivery of eHealth Strategy 2011-17 Progress Report 2011-13

4 - Future activities

The activities being progressed during the third year of the strategy (2013-2014) include the publication of the new health and social care information sharing strategic framework, discussions around person-centred eHealth, as well as continued progress by NHS Boards against all six aims of the eHealth Strategy.

NHS Boards will also be progressing the business as usual aspects of eHealth, with a focus in 2013-14 expected to be on the replacement and modernisation of the CHI (Community Health Index) System and related children's health systems.

There will be a greater focus on certain elements of the strategy, such as the implementation of systems to exchange medicines information between GP practices and acute hospitals, and for Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA), subject to available funding.

A comprehensive review of the overall eHealth strategy is being planned for 2014. This will set out how eHealth can support and take into account:

• The Workforce 2020 strategy
• The new arrangements for integrated care delivery
• Increasing need for mobile and flexible technology
• The drive to make all activities person-centred
• New and emerging technologies
• The need to support the collection and use of Big Data

Progress against these elements will form the major substance of the 2013-2014 Annual Report, due to be issued in November 2014.