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The objective of this research is to re-engineer data capture and analyze process of orthopaedic patients, involving multidisciplinary & cross-departmental healthcare records towards a unified Integrated Care e-Pathway (eICP) information system. The project will introduce a homogeneous, consistent and efficient way of capturing and querying of orthopaedic surgical patients' data across the relevant hospital departments and will complement other NHS (National Health Service)-wide initiatives on electronic health records. The chosen approach is a mix of intelligent re-designs of paper based pathways with an Optical-Character-Recognition (OCR) process via Formic Fusion Software, and a successive move towards routine electronic data capture which will be fully integrated with other hospital-based systems. Reports will be generated using Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools. So, it is a huge change management project involving culture change. A survey is conducted to study the attitude of clinical staff and service users towards implementing technology at the point of care (before and after implementing new technology). It also involves adopting lean principles which is termed as North East Transformation System (NETS). The research tracks the current status of National Program for IT (NPfIT), run by Connecting for Health (CfH). © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.
Author(s): Rizwan M, Scott E, Maxwell S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Year: 2010
Volume: 5
Pages: 91-97
ISSN (print): 2190-3018
ISSN (electronic): 2190-3026
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14594-0_9
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14594-0_9
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