The Cleveland Clinic in London has been awarded HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 accreditation in recognition of the “significant level” of digitisation and integration of its MyPractice Community EMR.
The electronic medial record is based on “an integrated suite of software modules created by Epic® Systems”, said to offer clinicians access from anywhere with an internet connection to patient information, test results, treatment plans, and more.
Some of the EMR’s functionality includes the “Care Everywhere” external record exchange, “Healthy Planet” PHM tools and registries, and the MyChart patient portal.
Referring to the HIMSS accreditation as a “tremendous achievement” for the clinic, its president, Rob Lorenz, said it demonstrated “what we can achieve for our patients when we demonstrate our values of teamwork and innovation”.
To reach Stage 7, organisations must have achieved a “dynamic health record” which utilises tools to “foster and engaging healthcare environment” and which “leverages analytics insights for strategic health management initiatives”. Earlier stages along the journey cover things like clinical data repositories, electronic documentation, governance, electronic orders, data integration, and data exchange.
Patient records wider trend
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust recently announced their preferred supplier for their integrated EPR systems in the summer, with Nervecentre to deploy its cloud-native platform for both trusts.
Last month HTN noted how United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust shared its own preferred EPR supplier subject to contract and approval of full business case.
NHS England shared plans to expand the existing support offer available through ‘Tiger Teams’ designed to support EPR delivery across England.
Also in October, we highlighted how two Essex trusts shared plans to establish a framework for a data partner to support their unified EPR programme; and we published a special report exploring EPR news, views, insights, research and more here.
Further insights around EPRs from health tech professionals are available through our coverage of our live event series, HTN Now, including panels on connecting care and extending EPR value through mobility and connected devices; and on planning for EPR optimisation.
We also recently asked our audience how many GP clinical systems (core electronic health record) suppliers they expect to see two years from now – click here to view the results.
And don’t forget to check out HTN’s upcoming 2025 event schedule, covering topics from EPRs, patient flow, and cyber security, to the shift to proactive care and more.
Highlighting wider digital transformation
In an address to the NHS Providers annual conference 2024 earlier this month, Wes Streeting spoke on ambitions to reform the NHS, citing “the Darzi diagnosis” of the health service, highlighting long waiting times as the “biggest barrier” to accessing care, and voicing the need for the health service to modernise to meet the needs of citizens who are “used to choice, voice, ease and convenience at the touch of a button”.
NHS England published the latest figures for the capacity and occupancy of virtual wards across integrated care boards in October 2024, sharing data on capacity, occupancy percentage and capacity per 100,000 of the GP registered population whilst also noting that the stats are “experimental” and “undergoing evaluation”.
HTN took a deep dive into smart tech, to find out what has been happening when it comes to emerging tech and smart tech for healthcare, from news in this area to innovative uses of this technology in the industry to research exploring the art of the possible.
We also spoke with a variety of NHS and health tech professionals, asking: what is holding the NHS back from innovation, and what is needed to break these barriers?
