The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust is piloting a
newsingle sign-ongateway portal to allow
staff secure access to health data.
Horizon Physician Portal from McKesson provides medical staff
with anytime, anywhere on-screen access to vital patient
information from a variety of sources.
Using a single sign-on through a web browser, clinicians can
obtain data from across the enterprise and personalise views of
this information according to their specific workflow needs.
The system gives clinicians immediate access to critical
information whether they are at home, in the office or even by the
patient's bedside.
Horizon Physician Portal acts as a gateway to a broad array of
resources and system applications from clinical information
systems, imaging and scheduling systems, core PAS systems,
communication systems, and internal or third-party content.
The Portal enables any NHS organisation using any NPfIT
(National Programme for IT) system to bring all information
together in one guise.
The Whittington trial follows reports that staff at another
Trust wrongly viewed the records of a
celebrity patient.