Links to eHealth resources
General eHealth resources
Many of the resources on this page are in PDF format. See how to access PDF files.
RCN eHealth guidance documents
- Abbreviations and other short forms in patient/client records (PDF 198KB)
- Consent to create, amend, access and share eHealth records (PDF 288KB)
- Making IT safer (PDF 193KB)
- Nursing content of eHealth records (PDF 153KB)
- Putting information at the heart of nursing care (PDF 195KB)
- Making Nursing Visible, Valuing our contribution to high quality patient-centred care (PDF 275KB)
New eHealth resource: launched January 2012
- eHealth at work provides a basic overview of eHealth for beginners and incorporates digital stories from patients and nurses to illustrate benefits of eHealth.
Further RCN guidance
- Legal advice for RCN members using the internet (PDF 167KB)
- Confidentiality. RCN guidance for occupational health nurses (PDF 244KB)
- Competencies: Finding, using and managing information (PDF 1.4MB)
- Standards for the design of hospital in-patient prescription charts (PDF 136KB)
- Telephone advice lines for people with long term conditions: guidance for nursing practitioners (PDF 293 KB)
- Use of text messaging services: guidance for children and young people (PDF 3.4MB)
External guidance
Informing Shared Clinical Care: A Summary. Available from NHS Connecting for Health
Enabling Patient Access to Electronic Records: Guidance for Health Professionals, is now available from the Royal College of General Practitioners
The Informatics self assessment framework provides guidance on using information and technology in practice and support in developing competence in these areas. The framework is available for download from NHS Connecting for Health Publications and resources.
NHS CFH Deployment Guide for Clinicians is a one stop guide for clinicians involved in deploying IT systems.
Nursing and Midwifery Council guidance on the use of social networking sites by nurses midwives and students is available from the NMC website.
RCP toolkit to avoid handover errors in the acute sector can be down loaded from the RCP website
Canadian National Initiative for Telehealth Guidelines: Guidance to support the development of telehealth policy, procedures, guidelines, and standards with a particular focus on service delivery (for example teleconsultation, tele-encounter/teletriage and telecare). Available from the Canadian Telehealth Forum website.
RCN Learning Zone Resource (members only)
Organisations
An international non-profit open coalition of telehealth and telecare industries.
European Health Telematics Observatory
A European, and increasingly international, eHealth web resource.
An international nursing network for telehealth and telecare, coordinated by the International Council of Nurses.
International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth
An international non-profit umbrella organisation for National Telemedicine and eHealth Societies and Associations.
Scottish Centre for Telehealth
Provides practical help to NHS organisations around telehealth projects.
Applications
An online and telephone health information and advice service for Scotland.
An online and telephone health information and advice service for England.
An online and telephone health information and advice service for Wales.
A secure online resource to help people in England manage their health, store important health information securely, or find out about local services.
For more information on My Health Online, a secure online resource to help people in Wales manage their health, store important health information securely, or find out about local services, visit Informing Healthcare.