Productivity

eQuip

• Introduce free WiFi for patients and staff
• Replace outdated IT equipment to increase productivity and efficiency
• Improve the cyber security within our Trust, ensuring your data remains protected and visible only to those that need to access it.

Patient Safety 

 eMeds

• Present all prescriptions in the same electronic format, improving clarity and reducing the risk of error.
  
• Electronic prescribing system will support doctors at the point of prescribing your medications.
  
• Reduce time spent finding or rewriting drug charts to ensure you will receive your in-hospital medications in a timely manner.
  
• Clinical decision support will guide clinical staff at the point of prescribing and automated prompts will notify nursing staff when your medications are due.
  
• Improved legibility of prescriptions will mean no more deciphering handwritten prescriptions.
  
• You and your GP will be better informed of your ongoing medications, once discharged from our hospitals.
  

Efficiency

eCorrespondence

• Improve correspondence between care providers, reducing the delay in your GP Practice receiving clinical information and instruction around your care.
• Make patient letters more accessible
• Standardise transcribing & dictation tools to ensure both you and your GP receive clear information about the care we have provided you and any necessary ongoing support or treatment required.
• Monitor turnaround times of electronically produced letters being sent to GPs to reduce delays to your ongoing care.

Patient Safety

eAssessments

• Remove paper documentation so that clinical information gathered by nursing staff will be held digitally and securely.
• Recognise and escalate deteriorating patients and ensure the right team has the right information at the right time to aid clinical decision-making.
• Information gathered by nursing staff via mobile devices will be more readily available to share electronically amongst clinical teams.
• Automated alerts will be sent to the relevant clinical staff within our hospitals.

Accessibility 

eInvestigations

• Enable electronic requesting of tests to support your care as removing paper requests will improve our efficiency.
• Ensure clinical teams have immediate access to results as soon as they are available.
• Test results are checked and acknowledged electronically by the medical team looking after you.

Performance

eImaging

• Improve performance and reliability of our Radiology solution to allow our Radiology Department to work more efficiently
• Further reduce delays in sending images and corresponding reports.
• Improve patient safety by ensuring you receive the right treatment at the right time.