The Great North Care Record will:
- Contain high quality, validated clinical information from the health, social care and third party sectors that can be shared with confidence
- Support identified and agreed clinical need for information (not just provide access to what is easy to share)
- Allow full use of coded as well as free text information, graphics and diagrams
- Support access to scanned documents, images and other unstructured documents, including shared documents from multiple sources into an integrated view
- Contain citizen generated health and care data from a variety of sources
- Support tagging and other metadata for documents and images
- Contain provenance of data sources (authorship, dates etc.)
- Include information that is structured, accurate and up to date
- Link primary, secondary, mental health and social care data for longitudinal patient/citizen pathway studies (for example).
