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A teaching hospital in the north-west of England claims it was the first NHS trust in England to become paperless. A year ago, St Helens and Knowsley put the last of its 500,000 patient records on line after spending the previous three years working closely with 88 local GP practices and two other trusts.
The first step the trust had to decide was what it wanted a digitalised system to achieve. The new system two requirements: to scan paper records and be able to collect live data, eliminating the need to keep future paper records. Neil Darvill, who is director of informatics at the trust and director of health informatics service, says: "We had to digitalise it in terms of scanning ? it is always the legacy issues which are the most challenging ? but we also had to have a system which could capture information in real time."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/jan/31/how-nhs-trust-went-paperless
The first step the trust had to decide was what it wanted a digitalised system to achieve. The new system two requirements: to scan paper records and be able to collect live data, eliminating the need to keep future paper records. Neil Darvill, who is director of informatics at the trust and director of health informatics service, says: "We had to digitalise it in terms of scanning ? it is always the legacy issues which are the most challenging ? but we also had to have a system which could capture information in real time."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/jan/31/how-nhs-trust-went-paperless