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SEPT's Award winning Digital Patient Health Records Project

SEPT’s digital patient health records project (Unity) was awarded the Document Management Project of the Year award. The award acknowledges one exemplary project from across all UK Government organisations.

To win the award, the nominated project must deliver benefits and innovation that are unique. The Unity project stood head and shoulders above the fierce competition for this award due to the fact that the project has delivered the following benefits:

  • Patient information is accessible immediately and from anywhere, thus helping care providers to get to the information they need without waiting
  • Significant cost savings are being achieved and yet at the same time patient outcomes have been improved
  • The project encompasses access from external organisations to the Trust, this is truly integrating care
  • The system was built around the needs of clinicians, and many SEPT staff fed-into the end design of the system and its processes, and this continues.

With an annual turnover of £324m, South Essex Partnership University NHS trust (SEPT) is one of the most successful in the country, providing integrated care including mental health, learning disability, social care and community services from over 200 locations. With these priorities in mind, the overarching goal was to provide a single patient record augmented from multiple systems, including the digitised paper patient record. With live patient records updated frequently, SEPT needed a solution that would be up and running 24-7.

Drawing on our extensive experience in the healthcare sector, Fortrus was brought in to provide a solution using the UNITY health viewer. To date significant progress has been on their journey to deliver an integrated digital care record. Through the use of the innovative Fortrus solution Unity, the world’s first unified health viewer, SEPT is meeting many of the requirements for digital care plans, and will exceed all requirements ahead of the Government deadlines.

Dr Llewellyn Lewis, deputy medical director for Essex, says of the programme: “I have found the implementation of EPR [the Fortrus Unity solution] invaluable in allowing me to provide rapid access to patients who may be experiencing early warning signs of relapse, as I can reference their notes immediately without needing to wait for paper copies from medical records. It has allowed the maintaining adherence programme team to develop a very responsive service which has been very well received by patients.”

www.sept.nhs.uk

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