Healthcare Insights

Insights for the Healthcare industry

• The Integrated Theatre Solution
  

  By streamlining workflow and capturing key patient data, the fully integrated theatres module in Release 1 (R1) contributes to: The delivery of improved patient care and greater overall efficiency. This will enable Trusts to meet key Government directives such as quicker access to care, improving patient safety and achieving robust financial control.

• Maternity Functionality
  

  The maternity functionality supports the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal management of women and babies both in the community and hospital settings. It is an integrated part of the patient care record, facilitating statutory and operational reporting and offers support for clinical reporting.

• Enabling modern healthcare
  

  Enabling modern healthcare - The healthcare industry faces huge challenges, with a wide range of ever increasing demands. Health services are under pressure to provide ever better service to an ever higher number of patients – often with fewer resources. The challenge for IT has to be to demonstrate value in practical terms acceptable to healthcare.

• Clinical Module
  

  The clinical module provides a range of functions to support acute and community based individuals or teams in planning, delivering and recording patient care throughout the patient journey. The clinical module can be accessed directly from the other Cerner Millennium modules, such as Accident & Emergency, and provides a range of views and features to support the NHS in achieving even better patient outcomes, increasing patient safety, meeting national targets and drivers and improving financial control.

• Child Health
  

  The integrated A&E solution facilitates the management and tracking of patients from admission - to either A&E or a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) - through to discharge or admission to hospital. By providing a timely, single source of information to the right people the solution supports NHS Trusts in meeting the 4 hour A&E target, receiving payment for work undertaken (Payment by Results) and improving patient flow overall.

• Accident & Emergency (A&E)
  

  The integrated A&E solution facilitates the management and tracking of patients from admission - to either A&E or a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) - through to discharge or admission to hospital. By providing a timely, single source of information to the right people the solution supports NHS Trusts in meeting the 4 hour A&E target, receiving payment for work undertaken (Payment by Results) and improving patient flow overall.

• A prescription for health
  

  RFID is transforming healthcare by reducing error, improving compliance and allowing patients, staff and equipment to be tracked accurately.

• Integrated Patient Administration System
  

  The Integrated Patient Administration System module is the foundation for the electronic health record, providing all the functions necessary to help you to manage your patients and their records in a range of health settings, including acute, mental health trusts and community environments. The integrated PAS solution supports patient registration and scheduling; facilitates bed management, infection control and tracking of patients from admission to hospital through to discharge or transfer. The PAS supports Trusts in meeting key Government targets including quicker access to care, achieving financial balance and continuous improvement.

• A Picture of Health - How technology is enabling a revolution in medical diagnosis.
  

  With the last elements of PACS operational, X-ray and other scans can be processed digitally and then shared electronically. The result is faster diagnosis and an end to lost films – something that’s an essential part of the UK government’s plan that no patient should wait more than 18 weeks between referral and treatment.

• Where are your pathology results?
  

  The benefit of creating more productive time is not just in meeting national targets. The real gain is in coping with complexity and delivery of better patient care.

• Returning the UK NHS to full Health
  

  The NHS is moving towards a more transparent health service, one that offers patients a level of information and choice. The specialist IT sector has a responsibility to support healthcare providers by ensuring delivery of facilities and infrastructure that let clinicians and managers respond to pressures and change the way services are accessed.

• Local Data Warehouse Solution
  

  NHS Trusts need to analyse business activity information from multiple sources, not just from what is available through the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS). Fujitsu Services recognises this need and is able to offer help and support through its ‘Local Data Warehouse’ solution.

• Electronic Document Management
  

  Patient safety incidents are costing NHS Trusts in England an estimated £2billion per annum in extra bed days. Estimates suggest that around half of these incidents could have been prevented. Fujitsu, in working with one Trust, identified a potential for 160 document types (based on the format of the old style paper record) which could form the electronic patient record.