Bradford chooses eClipse
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become one of
the first trusts in the country to go live with a brand-new maternity
system.
The system, called eClipse, means that clinical areas of the
maternity unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary are now equipped with
computers used by clinical staff to record care. The initial
implementation has been in the delivery suite and it is now used when
women are in labour.
“The new system means that there will be a huge reduction in
paperwork and duplication of records”, said Dawn Jankowicz, Midwife
Project Manager at the Trust. “Eventually paper notes will be completely
phased out.
“The new system will also help us collect research data for our ‘Born
in Bradford’ research project, which will benefit the study enormously.”
Further stages of the project will follow with the Huntleigh
Healthcare maternity system being linked with foetal-monitoring machines
and antenatal care records going live. This will mean that community
midwives are equipped with laptops so they can view and add notes, while
being linked in to the hospital system.
Source: bjhc&im March 2007
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