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Electronic medical records and personal digital assistants: ensuring patients get the right treatment. David Morgan ENT Consultant Heart of England Foundation Trust and Founding Director of Safe Surgery Systems. EMRs and PDAs – Ensuring patients get the right treatment.
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Electronic medical records and personal digital assistants: ensuring patients get the right treatment David Morgan ENT Consultant Heart of England Foundation Trust and Founding Director of Safe Surgery Systems
Technology in Healthcare • Improve patient safety • Improve hospital efficiency • Save time and easy to use (2 clicks) • Not tied to hardware • Integrate with other systems (HL7) • Practical examples
It’s a matter of Patient Safety… Public confidences of ‘wrong’ failures can be devastating for all involved, (patients, professional, organisational and personal reputations) Systems failures or communication breakdowns
Adverse Events – NPSA Data • Currently 60-80,000 per month • Total in NPSA database > 1,000,000 • Between Feb 06 and Jan 07 more than 24,000 reports received of patients misidentified and mismatched with care • Nearly 3,000 related to wristbands and their use
Incidence in USA • 3 reports every 2 days • 40% errors ‘reached’ patient • 20% completion of WSS • No reduction in WSS since publication of Joint Commission’s guidelines
VTE Prophylaxis • Preventable • Risk assessment • Audit
Responsibility for Patient Safety Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into effect on 6 April 2008 • Common Law offence within the criminal court structures and non-insurable. • Incident referred to Police and staff interviewed under caution • If gross failure in health and safety management found – Trust board risk criminal prosecution • CEO assumes overall responsibility; however, all directors have a 'collective responsibility'
Patented system using combination of Smart wristband tags and digital photographs to: Improve safety, prevent misidentification and reassure patients Improve Theatre efficiency and reduce waiting times by managing patients and beds better Save Clinicians’ time by reducing manual input and coding workload.
HEFT Implementation 2007+(4 theatres and 4 wards) • Non RFID theatres – 6 WSS in 3/12 • RFID theatres – 4 WSS cases prevented • Usability feedback – DVT assessment • Patient feedback (5,000+) • Correctly codes - PBR • Hospital promotion – patient choice • ROI – 6/12
Electronic Patient Record Form Patient Record Form • Rugged Tablet PC • Mobile wireless connection • Simple Touch Screen ‘buttons’ • Data entered in any order • Prompts for data relevant to incident • Configure to meet Service needs
On trial with Air Ambulance Warwickshire Air Ambulance connecting to Heartlands and Walsgrave Hospitals
Electronic Patient Record Form • Call Data • Incident Data • Clinical Data • Diagrams of injuries, site and vehicle • Decision Support • “Attack Alert” button
Tagged Triage Cards 1st Responders & Paramedics at scene A&E Departments Ambulance or Staging area Control Rooms
ClinicalDecision Support • Portable Access to Medical Information • Suitable for PDA / Laptop / Tablet PC • Piloted at Birmingham Heartlands • 50 Tools & Calculators • 60 ECG Trace Library • 30 Heart & Lung Sounds • Departmental Guidelines
Coroners Study/HEFT Survey • Coroners Study Findings – 2005 • 30 HEFT Juniors in 4 Specialties • Time allocated: • 50% said ‘None’ • 50% said ‘30min’ • Official time allocated: • 2 of the 4 specialties said ‘None’ • Written handover: • 23% said ‘Yes’ • Patient list handover: • 50% said ‘Most of the time’ • Is practice satisfactory? • 33% said ‘No’
Uses PDA / Laptop / Tablet PC • Linked wirelessly to Server based application • Process manages Handover of Tasks and Patients • Maintains Audit trail
Lord Darzi (Our NHS-Our Future) • Fair – equally available to all • Personalised – tailored to needs of individual • Effective- focused on delivering outcomes • Safe – giving patients confidence
Care in Chair System • End-to-end prescribing and monitoring solution • Tailored to each patients’ monitoring needs • Deployed on mobile platform • Bluetooth Device Option • Clinically Validated • Data analysis using ANN option
Lack of Adoption of Technology • NHS historically poor at adopting technology vs HCW • Strategic/Tactical/Operational views • CfH programme – contracts NOT solutions • Finance – rule of thirds • Decision making process flawed • Procurement process
Email: info@safesurgerysystems.com Web: www.safesurgerysystems.com