TY - JOUR T1 - Editor’s Briefing JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 283 LP - 283 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X668014 VL - 63 IS - 611 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2013/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/611/283.abstract N2 - The visionary American writer William Gibson is credited with saying that ‘The future is here — it’s just not evenly distributed’. This is particularly true for medical information systems, and nowhere truer than in the NHS. Indeed, in his book God Bless the NHS, reviewed in this issue, Roger Taylor argues, perhaps not all that convincingly, that the very future of the service lies in the quality of collection and analysis of outcome data. In a series of thought-provoking articles, contributors this month examine a range of topics related to information management and health care.Wallace and colleagues draw our attention to the importance of the CPRD (Clinical Practice Research Datalink) as a research tool. This large observational database, launched last year and funded jointly by the NHS National Institute for Health Research and the … ER -