⚡ Quick Summary
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is making significant strides in digital health by transitioning from paper to digital clinical noting. This initiative, in collaboration with Alcidion, aims to enhance efficiency for healthcare professionals and lay the groundwork for future AI integration.
💡 Key Features and Benefits
- 🔑 Time Savings for Staff: Individual doctors are saving an hour daily on administrative tasks, while nurses have reduced handover preparation time by half.
- ⚙️ Improved Patient Care: The digitization of clinical noting has led to better access to patient information, enhancing safety and efficiency in ward operations.
- 📊 Reduction in Paper Use: The trust has eliminated 1.8 million paper documents, including over 102,000 discharge letters sent electronically to GPs.
👩⚕️ Implementation and Impact
- The Miya Precision platform has been deployed as a trust-wide electronic patient record system, focusing on areas like patient flow, e-observations, and electronic prescribing.
- Dr. Andrew Adair, the chief clinical information officer, notes that the system provides standardized, legible notes accessible through a single interface, improving workflow for healthcare teams.
📅 Future Developments
- Plans are underway to further integrate AI technologies, such as voice recognition for dictating clinical notes and automated data population from existing patient records.
- Efforts are being made to enhance the system’s capabilities, including the integration of additional data from pathology and comorbidities systems.
🚀 Enhancing Patient Safety
- The new system allows for timely clinical reviews and assessments, improving patient safety metrics that were previously difficult to quantify.
- Data availability supports compliance with national clinical audits, freeing up clinician time for quality improvement initiatives.