An electronic Patient Record for the Cleft Lip and Palate Managed Clinical Network in Scotland (CLEFTSiS). A solution not without challenges. John Clark, Lead Clinician and Trudie McDonald, Network Manager
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Multidisciplinary Care from birth to 20 yrs
Concerns about the quality of care The Clinical Standards Advisory Group (an independent source of advice to the UK Health Ministers and to the NHS) was asked to investigate the care provide in the UK. Background to the UK cleft service Resources should be concentrated in UK centres instead of the current 57. There should be one centre in Scotland
Reorganisation of Scottish services following the CSAG report A Managed Clinical Network (CLEFTSiS) was established in April 2000 to provide and co- ordinate the highest standard of care for patients with cleft lip and/or palate, as far as possible in their own locality, to agreed national standards and guidelines. There would be only one centre – Scotland – with not less than two WTE cleft surgeons vested in three people who undertake surgery according to an agreed common protocol.
HDL (2002) 69 PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGED CLINICAL NETWORKS IN NHSSCOTLAND “A key factor in the success of MCNs is the use of integrated clinical information systems that span traditional organisational barriers”
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Combined clinic and treatment sites
Photographs Study models Radiographs Video/sound recordings Audit data Surgery SLT Orthodontics/dentistry Audiology Clinical psychology Records required for outcome assessments
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Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum (STAF) Funded a pilot to develop an EPR linking 5 sites; Perth (Admin Centre for the MCN) Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Inverness.
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The CLEFTSiS EPR project Procurement Undertaken within the framework of EC/WTO rules governing Public Sector procurement under the direction of the Head of the Business Advisory Group of the Information Services Division (ISD). commissioned to develop the EPR based on their system:
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Dataset and protocols Design
A patient record familiar to clinicians
Stages in a protocol clearly displayed with coloured buttons providing links to other forms Colour coded flags are set to show the status of interactions with the patient
Manage the clinical network by defining roles and including participating hospitals or health authorities
Examples of reports that can be generated by Excelicare
Patient review summary
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NW Manager and Audit secretaries
Architecture
IT Infrastructure Challenges Network firewalls - chain of contacts/procedures Switchover from CW to BT ( NHSNet / HNC) Trouble-shooting - who can solve what?
IT Infrastructure solutions? raise awareness at local Trust IT level of usage of NHSNet/Firewalls for cross-Trust projects central Technical person to oversee x- Trust interfaces / firewalls? ensure support for tracing problems is part of HNC contracts (or provide TraceRoute type tools..)
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Cost to Health Boards
Achievements Improved collection of audit records Able to perform ad-hoc queries for analysis/research National system with centrally held data (including multi media) and client connections into five Trusts Software EPR tool with potential to grow with the service Developing good relationships with IT staff in the five sites Possibility that it will be adopted UK wide
Thank you! to You, the audience for your attention STAF for funding the project CLEFTSiS members for their contribution and on-going support The staff of AxSys Technology