Sheffield Care Trust strives for simplicity
Sheffield Care Trust has introduced Avanquest’s OnBase electronic
content-management (ECM) software for its electronic medical records
system. Specifically designed to improve patient care and safety, OnBase
will make medical records more readily available to clinicians and
caregivers by integrating electronic document management with its
existing patient administration system (PAS).
Since installation of the Avanquest system, the Trust has been able
to improve access to its patient medical records, while at the same time
complying with the need to store many medical records indefinitely.
Documents are now scanned into a centralised OnBase repository, rather
than being stored on microfiche or scanned by a service bureau as they
were in the past.
“The quality of the fiche and imaging were poor and those documents
couldn’t be integrated into our current system”, said the Trust’s
Director of IT Tom Davidson. “OnBase makes it easier for us to provide
access to documents from anywhere. We are also impressed with how OnBase
copes with various scenarios, and is much more stable than much other
software. We also like the simple OnBase Web Client because we are
trying to move away from complexity for our clinicians; they just want
to be able to click and view a document.”
Source: bjhc&im February 2007
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