Join our bi-monthly EHCR Community of Practice meetings to share innovation, advance shared care records, and tackle health inequalities.
Six webinars
- Wednesday, 29 July 2026
- Friday, 25 September 2026
- Thursday, 19 November 2026
- Thursday, 21 January 2026
- Wednesday, 24 March 2026
- Wednesday, 26 May 2026
Agenda
- 12:00pm - Introduction
- Brief welcome and statement of the meeting’s core objective.
- 12:03pm - Actions
- Rapid review of open action items from the previous session.
- 12:05pm - Bi-Monthly Update: The World of EHCR
- 10-minute roundup of national policy shifts, standard updates, and regional developments.
- 12:15pm - Featured Topic
- The core 15-minute presentation or case study aligned to the meeting objective.
- 12:30pm - Questions and answers and Any Other Business
- Open discussion on the featured topic, member announcements, and capturing new actions.
The 6-Meeting Featured Topics (15 Mins)
- Mapping the Patient Journey
- How to apply user-centred design across primary, secondary, and social care boundaries.
- Tackling Digital Health Inequalities
- Ensuring digital-first access doesn't leave vulnerable populations behind.
- Federated Identity & Access Management
- Balancing seamless clinical access with strict patient privacy and control.
- Project Post-Mortems
- Honest lessons from the frontline of regional and national rollouts - what worked and what failed
- Patient Safety in the EHCR
- How system design, alert fatigue, and patient identifiers directly impact care safety.
- Population Benefit vs. Privacy Balance
- Extracting value from aggregated records for research while maintaining public trust.
Synopsis
Electronic Health and Care Records (EHCR) Community of Practice Series
The Electronic Health and Care Records (EHCR) Community of Practice invites professionals across policy, operational practice, supply, and academia to a focused series of six bi-monthly collaborative sessions.
As healthcare systems across the four nations strive to integrate fragmented data, delivering a holistic, unified view of a patient’s history and future care plans remains a top priority. However, achieving this requires navigating complex technical, ethical, and societal challenges.
This event series is designed to tackle these hurdles head-on. Rather than focusing solely on theoretical architecture, this community prioritises the realities of frontline adoption, interoperability, and standardisation.
Each 45-minute interactive session features a rapid briefing on the current national EHCR landscape, followed by a concentrated 15-minute deep dive into a critical industry challenge. By bringing together diverse perspectives, our aim is to move beyond operational silos, encourage open debate, and share best practices that directly improve patient and population wellbeing.
Key Learning Points
By attending this series, delegates will be able to:
- Apply User-Centred Design to Complex Pathways: Understand how to map and manage care processes that span primary, secondary, and social care boundaries, moving beyond single-organisation system design.
- Identify and Mitigate Digital Health Inequalities: Gain actionable strategies to ensure that digital-first record access supports, rather than excludes, vulnerable patient populations.
- Navigate Federated Access and Privacy: Explore the ethical and technical balance between providing clinicians with frictionless access to data and maintaining strict patient privacy and control.
- Extract Lessons from the Frontline: Learn from honest, real-world project post-mortems—understanding the non-technical barriers to scaling shared care records and how to overcome them.
- Assess System Impacts on Patient Safety: Evaluate how EHCR design choices, alert management, and patient identifiers directly influence clinical safety and outcomes.
- Leverage Records for Population Health: Understand the frameworks and safeguards required to safely utilise aggregated clinical records for wider academic research and population benefit.
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
This meeting is conducted in accordance with the BCS Code of Conduct for Meetings.
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This event is brought to you by: Electronic Health and Care Records specialist group
