{"id":6513,"date":"2022-04-13T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2022-04-13T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:21:27","slug":"blackpool-teaching-hospitals-goes-live-with-ccube-solutions-edrms-to-deliver-digital-records-and-enhance-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=6513","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Teaching Hospitals goes \u2018live\u2019 with CCube Solutions\u2019 EDRMS to deliver digital records and enhance patient care"},"content":{"rendered":"

50,000 paper files already scanned and made available electronically to clinicians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

CCube Solutions announces today that Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented its electronic document and records management system (EDRMS) to store legacy and day-forward paper medical records as part of a substantial investment to deliver digitally-enabled care.<\/p>\n

The EDRMS project is part of a major digital transformation change programme within the Trust – to boost clinical and organisational efficiency – which will also see the procurement of a new organisational-wide EPR<\/a>[1]<\/a> system and the integration of the two new platforms together.<\/p>\n

Fully operational and \u2018live\u2019 today,\u00a0 7,500 clinical staff will be trained to the use the CCube EDRMS to ultimately access all of the Trust\u2019s medical files \u2013 totalling around 650,000 patient records all of which are in the process of being scanned.\u00a0 This will help support the Trust\u2019s busy workload of 32,000 outpatient appointments per month, delivered primarily from its large Blackpool Victoria Hospital site.<\/p>\n

EDRMS provides instant access to medical records, enhances patient safety through 100% notes availability, improves clinical effectiveness, enhances security and auditing and saves money.\u00a0 It is also allowing storage areas to be converted into much needed clinical space.<\/p>\n

Geoff Burrow, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals\u2019 Chief Information Officer, explains, \u201cCovid obviously delayed our progress with this project, but we\u2019re now fully operational with EDRMS and focused on getting rid of the paper.\u00a0 Over 50,000 paper records have already been scanned in, each containing about 300 pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and operates within a regional health economy catchment area that spans Lancashire and South Cumbria, supporting a population of 1.6 million and an estimated 18 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. The Trust also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services across this region, as well as hosting the National Artificial Eye Service.<\/p>\n

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Blackpool Victoria Hospital<\/p><\/div>\n

The vast workload to scan all paper notes is being done in two ways.\u00a0 First, the Trust has invested in creating its own scanning department where 35 staff use 10 Opex Falcon scanners, supplied by CCube Solutions, to process the paperwork. Second, scanning has also been outsourced within the National Health Service to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) \u2013 one of the largest specialist scanning operators in Europe \u2013 who use the same Opex Falcon equipment.<\/p>\n

A not-for-profit arm\u2019s length body of the Department of Health and Social Care, the NHSBSA has long track record in document scanning given its expertise and heritage \u00a0processing all paper prescriptions in the UK which still total tens of millions per month.<\/p>\n

The Opex Falcon scanners are rated at 116 pages per minute at 300 dpi \u2013 the resolution recommended to meet BS 10008<\/a>, a best practice records standard for the implementation and operation of electronic information management systems, including the storage, extraction and transfer of information.<\/p>\n

Burrow says, \u201cCCube EDRMS is designed to literally be an online version of the paper record and has six sections busy clinicians are familiar with.\u00a0 This makes it easy and intuitive for them to find the documents they need whether it be clinical correspondence, clinical notes, treatment documents, investigation reports, safeguarding documents and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the transition underway between paper and electronic notes, when clinicians log into the Trust\u2019s Patient Administration System (PAS) today, they are currently presented with a marker to show whether the patient\u2019s record is available digitally or still in paper format.<\/p>\n

Burrow adds, \u201cWe\u2019re currently working on the detail but the strategy will be to adopt scan-on-demand so that when a patient is booked for an appointment, their notes are pulled from the library, digitised ahead of time and then made available in the CCube EDRMS. This then saves moving any paper files about.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shift from paper to digital health records will deliver a variety of other benefits: <\/strong><\/p>\n