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MediHome pioneer use of Electronic Patient Record System
MediHome, the Hospital-Care-At-Home Company, has implemented the Project E-vita™
Patient Record System from Evaware to further improve patient care and provide Clinicians
with up to the minute reports. The MediHome service provides high impact, short-term
nursing care following an acute hospital admission to patients in the comfort of
their own homes.
Project E-vita has been implemented by MediHome to ensure that their service continues
to meet the high standards of patient care whilst enabling Clinicians to retain
control of the patient’s treatment and recovery. Using the latest Internet technology
Project E-vita allows information to be more easily shared by Clinicians and Healthcare
providers thereby improving decision making and patient care. MediHome’s implementation
of Project E-vita creates a community of Healthcare professionals and Clinicians,
wherever they are based, with access to the patient’s medical records and status.
The Project E-vita system allows the storage of images and documents, ICD Diagnostics,
office integration and code cross mapping. This allows MediHome to communicate more
information to a wider audience faster than by any other means.
Charles Whiffin, MediHome’s Finance and Systems Director explains – “Quality of
patient care is the number one priority for MediHome and therefore technology has
an important part to play. Project E-vita provides us with a full Healthcare management
and Electronic Patient Records system and therefore the ability to fully support
the patient as well as meeting the needs of the hospital. Patients in our care are
still the responsibility of the hospital, it is therefore imperative that we provide
them with all relevant information, just as if the patient was still in the ward.
The Project E-vita system allows us to provide the very latest status of the patient
and at the same time provide access to X-Rays, Wound Images, ECG Reports, Blood
Tests and other key data.”
Nick Dyer, Managing Director of Evaware, takes the story further – “We have developed
the Project E-vita system to go beyond just patient care. The system provides a
wealth of management and administrative information to allow health care managers
to analyse the types and volumes of services being provided and to be able to plan
with greater accuracy future needs. Project E-vita is fully web based and is supported
24*7.”
Charles Whiffin, continues – “Immediately following each patient visit our nursing
staff update the records. This means that we provide instant and up to date information
accessible at any time of the day or night. Consultants can therefore access their
patients’ records using a web browser to conduct a Virtual Ward Round within minutes,
without leaving their desk or home. Consultants can even use the system to provide
us with further instructions or modify the treatment being provided. What the system
does not replace is the commonsense approach of picking up the phone when we spot
any kind of abnormality in the recovery of the patient”
MediHome’s use of Project E-vita precedes the National Programme for IT’s (NPfIT)
own implementation of an Electronic Patient Reporting system and is already delivering
the kind of increased levels of efficiency and patient care anticipated by the Connecting
for Health initiative.
Charles Whiffin concludes – “In due course we anticipate being able to integrate
with the NPfIT system and further extend the value of our service. Our implementation
of Project E-vita further demonstrates the effectiveness of the private sector working
in conjunction with the NHS to deliver improved health care whilst driving down
costs.”
About MediHome
Founded by Dr Mark Lomax in 2002, based in Slough. MediHome provides quality, high
impact, short-term nursing care following an acute hospital admission to patients
in their own homes. Nurses are registered with the Nursing Midwifery Council and
have a wide range of nursing experience in various specialist settings. MediHome
is regulated and inspected by the Commission for Social Care Inspection. MediHome
works with the NHS, ISTC providers and individual consultants and patients. MediHome’s
innovative approach was featured in a case study in the 2004 NHS Modernisation Board
Report.
For further information, interview opportunities or photographs please contact:
Sue Eyles
Bluebird Associates Ltd
01628 638001
sue@bluebirdmedia.co.uk
Or
Tom Hayhoe,
Director Business Development
MediHome
020 8741 0216
tom@tomhayhoe.net
Links:
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