The Deeble Institute recently released a position statement written by the former leaders of the BEACH general practice data program calling for better structures to ensure reliable national data from general practice electronic health records (EHRs).

Since then, there have been follow-up articles in Pulse+IT about the plans software vendors Best Practice and MedicalDirector have for integrating Systematic Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) into their systems, which already goes to one of the recommendations.