The adoption of shared care records within the NHS is a significant step toward improving patient care and healthcare efficiency. However, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) may want to make more of the data they can access. Thankfully, help is at hand with Future Perfect’s PANACEA™ platform.

Many ICBs have invested in digital records repositories that draw data from providers’ systems to support strategic pathway management and allow views of an individual patient’s care experience.

Very few are making progress in rolling out systems that support live shared care. Users need help accessing the data available in ways that support their workflow. In addition, users may benefit from enriched functionality to meet their specific requirements.

A shared care record should offer health and care professionals the precise data they need from the systems in use by various care providers to allow for more efficient and accurate care planning. However, this is only sometimes the case, and most users still have to gather information from multiple systems to build a complete picture of an individual’s needs. In addition, some care settings may benefit from additional functionality in areas such as complex discharge.

When developed and used properly, shared care records can completely transform integrated pathways and patient flow management, considerably improving care and reducing time and cost.

To realise their clinical and operational potential, ICBs must encourage patients and healthcare professionals to embrace shared care records fully. Such engagement will only happen when shared care records give professionals simple access to the information and tools they need at the point of care.

Data sharing can transform health and care; as NHS England states, Data Saves Lives. To realise this vision, many ICBs will require data and functionality from existing systems while developing a more integrated and efficient shared care record system. PANACEA™ from Future Perfect offers a solution.

PANACEA™ is a robust applications platform that works with openEHR, the global open standard for clinical repositories, to separate data from source systems and streamline data exchange in a single secure space.

Rather than merely providing a superficial static view of the information held in multiple systems, PANACEA™ offers deep integration, combining data at a granular level into a cohesive whole, to support the comprehensive care provided by the numerous care settings covered by an ICB.

Health and care professionals can access rich data via the intuitive integration features available on PANACEA™, aiding engagement and adoption. Patients can also view their health records using a single access point, reducing the need to navigate multiple portals.

Data governance is simplified, as organisations retain and control necessary clinical records while benefiting from more comprehensive patient data.

PANACEA™ complements existing shared care records with functionality in areas such as complex discharge and tools that ensure smooth data exchange between systems. It can also federate across multiple openEHR repositories, such as those used by the OneLondon shared care record.

Already supporting virtual regionwide MDTs and clinical decision-support tools in fields such as cancer, PANACEA™ can integrate data from virtual wards and wearable devices to enable the comprehensive monitoring and management of patient care across different settings.

PANACEA™ can also underpin advanced functionalities like AI, BI, and analytics and drive new pathways and workflows from research outputs developed within Trusted Research Environments.

PANACEA™ surfaces crucial data to aid more comprehensive care workflows and help ICBs realise short-term benefits and long-term goals for shared care records. In use across the NHS, the platform can play a crucial role in the future of integrated care within the NHS and social care