Why are Electronic Patient Records more efficient than traditional paper based records?

An EPR provides clinicians with desktop access to patient health records at the point of care, enabling numerous benefits to be delivered, including more efficient access to patient information for clinicians.  However, merely digitising case notes, without restructuring or indexing them will undoubtedly have a negative impact on clinical efficiency and effectiveness. 

Creating a true EPR from the restructured physical case notes, with indexing applied to at least some clinical form-types, is the only way to ensure clinical usability and therefore deliver the anticipated benefits. 

To achieve this, working with Clinicians to agree key clinical document types that are regularly accessed, is essential.

Some of the benefits realised through the use of electronic patient records include the following:

• Provides access to multiple systems through a single viewer with patient-context processes being used to open information at the appropriate point in the data.
• Multiple access to the same case note by different users at multiple locations and so supporting the sharing of information between clinicians.
• Access to case notes at the point of need.
• Forward intelligent capture of information, through increasing use of e-forms and the efficient capture and indexing of individual paper forms, such as GP referrals, from external agencies
• Access to data directly imported into the EPR repository from other sources
• Access to information in other systems through a single interface to linked data repositories
• Potential to be able to data-mine information repositories
• The release of case note storage and administrative office space throughout a Trust

At Fortrus we provide a complete digitisation services to our clients, from paper scanning to analytics platform build, that:

• Removes Paper
• Reduces Costs
• Improves Quality
• Enables Collaboration
• Mitigates Risk
• Guarantees Compliance

Used daily by hospitals throughout the UK, Unity is a GCP compliant system that amplifies the professional insight of your team. By gathering, filtering and analysing huge volumes of patient data in seconds.

For further information please contact us:

Leigh Baillie

Chief Marketing Officer

Fortrus Ltd

+44 7894 517828

leigh.baillie@fortrus.com