Friday 19 April 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6381
Date Request Received: 02/12/2021 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 07/12/2021 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Request Category: Students (Educational)
| Question Number 1: Regarding Electronic Health Records (EHR): 1a) What primary EHR system does your Trust use, if any? 1b) Are electronic inpatient notes implemented in all sites within your Trust? If no, please state which sites do not have electronic notes. 1c) Is electronic recording of patient vital signs (i.e. including but not limited to blood pressure, oxygen saturations, etc) implemented in all sites within your Trust? If no, please state which sites do not have electronic observation recording. 1d) Are electronic drug charts and prescribing implemented in all sites within your Trust? If no, please state which sites do not have electronic prescribing. | |
| Answer To Question 1: 1a) Lorenzo 1b) Currently electronic inpatients notes is minimal 1c) The majority of vital signs are recorded electronically for inpatient wards 1d) Electronic prescribing currently is not implemented at the Trust. | |
| Question Number 2: Regarding EHR commissioning: 2a) Have you received any direction from a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) or Integrated Care System (ICS) regarding provision of past, present or future EHR systems? 2b) Have you ever undertaken any formal negotiations with other hospital Trusts about jointly procuring an EHR system, and if so, have negotiations resulted in joint procurement of an EHR system? | |
| Answer To Question 2: 2a) No we have not. 2b) We are currently in the early stages on considering a joint EPR procurement within the Acutes in our ICS. | |
| Question Number 3: Regarding EHR interoperability: 3a) Assuming your Trust contains multiple hospital sites, are your EHR users able to directly access inpatient electronic notes from different hospital sites within your Trust? 3b) Aside from NHS spine summary care records (SCR), are your EHR users able to directly access patient records held by local primary care EHRs (e.g. by using an EHR web portal, or healthcare information exchange etc)? If yes, please specify the name of the system that enables this. 3c) Aside from NHS spine summary care records (SCR), are your EHR users able to directly access patient records held on a separate hospital Trust's EHR? If yes, please specify which Trust's EHR where this interoperability is enabled. | |
| Answer To Question 3: 3a) The Trust has only one site, Salisbury District Hospital. Remote access to our EPR is available for relevant staff however. 3b) Staff can currently access records of primary care patients on TPP viewer. 3c) Currently staff are unable to access other sites EPRs. | |
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