Making the most of it

The implementation delays suffered by CfH have renewed interest in IT systems that deliver advantages today without compromising the future ability to benefit from the advanced systems promised by the National Programme for IT.

This sponsored feature, produced by E-Health Insider in association with Graphnet, looks at three very different scenarios where Graphnet solutions have delivered benefits to patients and clinicians.

NHS reforms mean there is a need to provide clinical information at the point of care. Halton and Warrington Primary Care Trust has used the Graphnet Community System to enable nurse practitioners and allied health professionals to share clinical information needed to provide care in a variety of settings. It believes much of its success down to effective integration with GP records.

Meanwhile, Hants and IOW Strategic Health Authority have implemented an interim EHR system for their 1.5m population, and specialist orthopaedic trust Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt has an interim EPR that integrates with CfH's reference solution, giving it the trust the systems it needs today without compromising the future.

Sharing clinical information across the community Halton and Warrington Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) initiated a pilot project in 2002 for Electronic Health Record (EHR) development. This pilot was used as a 'proof of concept' project to support a nurse-led direct access service run from a mobile healthcare unit in Halebank, Widnes. Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking project launched ahead of the national NHS Care Records Service. The Clinical Data Repository set up by Graphnet for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority has GP records for 650,000 patients, nearly half a million hospital documents and 2,000 single assessment process records already available to view. Interim EPRs: The backbone of healthcare Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District NHS Trust has been using Graphnet solutions for over fifteen years. Children's surgeon Andrew Roberts explains the history of how the trust came to use EPRs, and how the solution has been updated and changed for the present and the future.

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