East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has announced the selection of an electronic patient record across its four sites, with Dedalus’s cloud-ready system ORBIS U chosen for deployment.
It is hoped that ORBIS U will support integration across multiple clinical processes, offering a “comprehensive” patient record built on real-time data and enabling the digitisation of patient information including treatment plans, radiology imagines, allergies and laboratory test results.
Chief information officer Mark Stanton states that ORBIS U “is a significant upgrade” on the trust’s existing EPR solution, with the trust expecting benefits around efficiency, data security, process optimisation and communication.
EPRs in the spotlight
Last week, HTN highlighted a prior information notice from NHS England worth £18 million, signalling the beginning of market engagement on an EPR system to capture health data and records across the health and justice area, covering prisons, detention centres, and more.
Also last week, we reported how Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust awarded a 10-year contract extension for an electronic patient record system from The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), set to run for 10 years and worth an estimated £6,294,780. Another 10-year contract was signed by Northampton General Hospital for Nervecentre’s cloud-based EPR.
Other news includes an update on the plans from Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative to implement a shared EPR; an EPR go-live at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust; and plans from Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals and Royal United Hospitals Bath to implement a shared EPR.
A recent panel discussion in July focused on connecting care and extending EPR value through mobility and connected devices, with insights shared from Andy Kinnear, former chief information officer and independent consultant; Louise Clarkson, chief nursing information officer at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals; and Daniel Johnston, senior clinical workflow specialist for Imprivata.
Also from the region
Earlier in the year we highlighted East and North Hertfordshire’s plans to install energy efficient LED lighting in every ward, theatre, clinic and office at its Lister Hospital site; and we reported on the SEND improvement plan from Hertfordshire Local Area Partnership, which outlined plans to develop a data dashboard to promote shared understanding of SEND provision and quality.
We also explored the digital and data landscape across each of the ICS regions in a feature series earlier this year; click here to read our coverage of the East of England.
