Case Study: South Staffordshire Electronic Health Record (EHR) Pan-Community EHR Delivers Cradle-to-Grave Emergency Medical Records for South Staffordshire After a comprehensive selection process, South Staffordshire Health Community was chosen to develop and demonstrate the operational use of EHR for emergency care and Out of Hours services as part of the NHS Electronic Records Development and Implementation Programme (ERDIP). The EHR pilot team at South Staffordshire started work on the project in July 2000, with the objective of delivering a key summary of patient- based information from all participating NHS organisations in the region in one, accessible record. This involved making information from GPs, Accident and Emergency Departments, Out of Hours

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