According to E-Health Insider, the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust will work alongside EMIS, the software provider, to develop a secure mailbox which will receive electronic neonatal results. This system will input results directly to patient records avoiding the need to replicate.
Laboratories previously posted all baby screening results to the trust, which were then manually inputted into an electronic system and provided to health visitors as a paper record.
Peter Woods, information management and technology senior project manager for Informatics Merseyside, said that the new mailbox system would make the results reporting process much easier.
Woods added that by introducing the new system, hospitals would only need to enter data once for each child, where previously it had to be entered multiple times by different departments and teams.
"Not only is it enabling us to speed up our baby screening process by between two and five days on average, and enabling us to get results back to families much quicker, it's also helping to significantly reduce paperwork," he said.
He added that the system also removed the risk of "human error" in data inputting and would allow records to be more "easily audited" which would in turn help the trust to manage their performance "better in the future".
The trust will also continue to use paper based records for a period of three months to ensure that the automated system maintains its accuracy. The full electronic switchover will take place in January 2013.
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Quelle/Source: Public Service, 18.10.2012
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