E-Health Insider recently announced four acute trusts have been suggested as ‘EPR exemplars’ by EHI readers. Of the four Exemplars, three have utilised Docman’s electronic document transfer solution, Docman Hub to support them with their paperless strategy.
The debate on E-Health Insider initiated in April around health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for the NHS to adopt electronic records by 2015 and to go paperless by 2018. The Exemplars provide real life best practice and examples of what good IT looks like following demand from EHI’s NHS IT Managers and Clinician readership.
3 out of the 4 best practice examples have utilised Docman Hub to support their IT strategy by removing the paper correspondence between the Trust and GP practices. The solution drives improved communication to deliver information to GPs in real-time. This approach removes the manual process of dealing with clinical correspondence to alleviate time consuming activity so that it can be redeployed to patient services. In result the opportunity to provide information to clinicians in real-time ensures a connected health economy to benefit patients.
Docman Hub integrates with secondary care systems so that a document can be electronically transferred without the need to print and post. Correspondence sent includes attached meta-data, delivering documents into the centre of a GP practice Docman process, so the information to file the document is already pre-populated leading to further automation in the electronic workflow.
The Trusts nominated to be Exemplars include, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital; University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire; University Hospital Southampton; and Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS foundation trusts for consideration.
Tim Robinson, Sales and Marketing Director, Docman “100 NHS Trusts have taken the Docman Hub solution to electronically transfer clinical correspondence to deliver paper free care and support their strategy to become paperless. The sheer volume of information flow across the health economy makes managing paper impossible. The resulting benefits enable Clinician’s access to information when they need it, organisations back-office processes are streamlined and efficient, and the management information obtained is invaluable.”
To find out more about the EPR exemplars please visit: https://www.ehi.co.uk/news/EHI/8850/epr-exemplars-nominated