A new way of accessing clinical information on the move
The 2004 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Award for the best example of
technical innovation was presented to the Royal National Orthopaedic
Hospital NHS Trust with BMS (UK) Ltd for their Clinical Information on the
Move entry. Brian Seaton and Tina Tsoukatos describe the
project.
abstract
This paper explains how, by using current technologies, including
biometrics, all healthcare staff can gain secure and quick access to patient
information. The solution used in the Clinical Information on the Move
project at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) can
offer higher levels of efficiency to peripatetic staff who typically share
access points to computerised information and can suffer from technological
barriers to ease of access. This solution enabled the RNOH to move away from
‘where-you-are’ to ‘who-you-are’ access control.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2004; 21(6): 27–8. |
