SCI Gateway for Dentists Forth Valley

1. SCI Gateway for DentistsForth Valley Eric Hill 18 May 2010

2. Forth Valley Dental Referral Model Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Health Records High Street Practices Orthodontics Central Orthodontics (independent) SCI Gateway Community & Salaried Dental

3. SCI Gateway for Dentists • Met with GDP Subcommittee • Demonstrated the system • Held project kick-off meeting • Benefits • Milestones • Risks • Forms • Finalised forms and began implementation The Beginning

4. SCI Gateway for Dentists • Improved quality and completeness of data being sent • Improved speed and reliability of transmission • Record of receipt: senders can track status and inform patients • Referral forms can include advice screens, e.g. guidelines on when to refer, etc Benefits

5. SCI Gateway for Dentists • CHI: • SCI Gateway allows boards to decide • Dentists currently have no access to CHI • Paper referrals don’t have the CHI • Referrals received in Forth Valley via SCI Gateway, not SCI Store Issues

6. SCI Gateway for Dentists • Configuring practices in SCI Gateway: • Practice info from ISD not yet available for dental practices • Manual entry must be done centrally, not by the boards Issues

7. SCI Gateway for Dentists • Health records wasn’t configured to receive dental referrals: • Was noticed within days during the pilot Other issues • One receiver was deleting referrals when finished processing: • Noticed by practices; rectified with further training

8. SCI Gateway for Dentists • Size limit of 2 MB on attachments could interfere with sending x-rays: • Informal survey of boards indicates most x-rays are less than the limit • One practice in Forth Valley produces larger file sizes, but this could be a configuration error Other issues

9. SCI Gateway for Dentists End of June 2009 to end of September 2009 Pilot

10. SCI Gateway for Dentists Usage Information

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