Hospitals improve control over patient record systems

System will prevent hospitals being swamped with paper

The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire have improved control over their patient records stored in their legacy system.

The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire ‘super’ hospital is the largest in the country, seeing over one million patients a year and has over 30,000 appointments each week.

To ensure vital hospital space was not consumed in the physical storage of masses of paper; it was decided to outsource storage and delivery of patient records to a partner from the private sector, TNT.

The hospital has used a system from Datawatch to convert the daily list of records generated by the legacy system to a format that can be shared with the TNT systems.

Nick Elliott, chief technology officer at UHCW, says the system is an improvement.

'It’s much better than a programming approach. It makes the system easier to maintain, as models and projects can be altered or developed by non-technical staff, so the process is not dependent on IT resources,' he said.

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