{"id":35102,"date":"2015-09-04T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=35102"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:25:15","slug":"the-bmj-today-online-medical-records-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/04\/the-bmj-today-online-medical-records-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Online medical records, confusing mortality figures, and deciding not to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/online_medical_record.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35103 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/online_medical_record-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"online_medical_record\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 Patients promised online access to their medical records by 2018<\/strong><br \/>\nToday, <em>The BMJ<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4740\">carries the news that England&#8217;s health secretary Jeremy Hunt<\/a> has pledged that all patients in England will be able to access and input into their own medical records from any location in the country by 2018. \u00a0As part of an ambitious batch of pledges on new technologies in the NHS, Hunt also announced that a quarter of all smartphone users in England will be electronically accessing their medical records and booking appointments via their mobile device by 2018.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 UK government criticised over \u201cconfusing\u201d fitness to work mortality figures<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4677\">Matthew Limb reports that the UK Department for Work and Pensions<\/a> (DWP) has been accused by a leading academic of creating \u201cconfusion\u201d with their response to freedom of information requests for data on deaths among people declared fit for work by the government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/smoking_cigarette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35106 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/smoking_cigarette-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"smoking_cigarette\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 More European smokers are deciding not to quit, survey shows<\/strong><br \/>\nThe proportion of smokers in Europe who have no intention of quitting is increasing, according to new figures from the ongoing EUROASPIRE study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4724\">reported in Susan Mayor&#8217;s story<\/a>. The new figures, reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, compared lifestyle, risk factors, and drug treatment in people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease who were interviewed in 2006-08 and again in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gareth Iacobucci<\/strong>\u00a0is news reporter for <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Patients promised online access to their medical records by 2018 Today, The BMJ carries the news that England&#8217;s health secretary Jeremy Hunt has pledged that all patients in England [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/04\/the-bmj-today-online-medical-records-confusing\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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