Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is developing an electronic whiteboard for its Emergency Department and implementing a clinical portal to give healthcare professionals a comprehensive, real-time view of relevant information about their patients.
Clinicians at the Trust are working with Harris Healthcare to develop and customise an interactive whiteboard to provide an overview of patient information at a glance. The system will enable healthcare professionals to track patients more clearly and efficiently from admission to discharge, provide information from underlying systems including temporary information, and capture information at the point of care. The clinical portal will also ensure that all relevant information about a patient is brought together without the need to search between multiple systems for relevant medical information. Dr Amir Hassan, emergency medicine consultant at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Emergency departments are under significant pressure to treat patients, many who are in a critical condition, as quickly and effectively as possible. The ED whiteboard and clinical portal will allow us to work effectively by integrating the systems that we already have into one single view, therefore streamlining the clinician’s workflow and ensuring the best possible care for the patient. “The ED whiteboard is about tracking patients through their pathway. It will enable us to click on a patient to arrange activity and check whether that has been followed up.”
