CHFT has hosted our first Digital Health Showcase Day in the Learning Centre at HRI.
Around 60 nursing delegates from around the country attended with speakers from our Trust as well as our EPR partners Bradford.
CHFT's Mandy Griffin, Ellen Armistead and Helen Barker were among the home speakers and they provided insight into the "big bang" approach to implementation and what drives CHFT to be a digital trust.
Our nursing and midwifery colleagues provided insight into how going digital has influenced how they record clinical care and how that digital record impacts on our patients.
Feedback from the event, included: "I so much enjoyed today listening to others speak about what EPR has enabled and how much the work we do affects everyday lives for staff and patients. It keeps what we are doing real, and hearing how others benefit gives me the determination to continue to work and improve what we have in relation to EPR."
Helen summed up her thoughts on our digital transformation.
What have the best advances for patients (due to technology) so far? – Got to be the connection between the EPR and GP systems that facilitates more joined up healthcare
What do you think the most exciting developments will be in healthcare technology in the next 10 years? – I think this will be Artificial intelligence that will really help us to ensure patients get more consistent high quality healthcare that is personalised to their specific need
How easy have you found it to adapt to all the changes? Joining the dots on all the different systems is hard and I don’t think we have yet maximised what they can do with the key being thinking about how we use them to help us transform rather than just carry on working in the same way we have always done so lots to do!
Caroline Crothers - Benefits Lead - Health Informatics - also shared her thoughts.
How easy have you found it to adapt to all the changes? Change is never easy however, healthcare is now more patient centric, giving a better experience for the patient and the clinician. Change has given us an EPR that connects the patient to primary care and primary care to secondary care. Therefore change is a must!
What do you think the most exciting developments will be in healthcare technology in the next 10 years? Healthcare technology develops at such a fast pace it’s difficult to say. It is probably going to be how the cloud is used to support the new technological advances and the improvement of devices used at the point of care, making the lives of our healthcare professional a little easier.
How easy have you found it to adapt to all the changes? Personally, I enjoy change, it’s challenging and exciting at the same time but the biggest reward is to watch our Trust adopting change that ultimately will improve a patients experience.
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Delegates attending the event came from around the country with job titles ranging from clinical, nursing and IT backgrounds.
Speakers in the afternoon provided an update on how we use the information extracted from all our digital systems to drive excellence and improve care. We also showcased how we are casting our net wider in terms of ‘community view’ which enables a two way view of the clinical record within the primary and secondary care record by the acute and GP teams…. We haven’t stopped.
We had representation from e-Prescribing, digital ECG, digital training, PACS, Bloodtrack, Nervecentre, our back office team who support changes to the system.