Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 041 (a)
• Rotawatch scheduling tools
7. Other IT projects in progress or completed
In 2009-10 there have been several notable achievements with delivery of clinical systems to
support the Trust:
• Upgrade of the iPM PAS system to be 18 week compliant
• Implementation of the eVolution Maternity system in the acute Trust and piloting in
the Community settings. The Community setting has proved very challenging with
issues primarily concerned with the hand-held record and how to produce that
electronically.
• Support to the Hospital at Night project with an electronic handover reporting system
• Trust-wide implementation of electronic requesting of tests and investigations
• Revision of the TTO/Discharge letter and roll-out now commenced to Sandwell GPs,
as City GPs already receive the electronic discharge summary.
• Electronic referral to support smoking cessation
• Alerts by SMS and texting to alert MRSA, C-Diff, EBSL, TB etc.
• Historical load of all clinical letters at Sandwell to support paperless in the outpatient
setting potentially within 18 months.
• Expansion of the locally developed Clinical Data Archive (CDA) to support the
creation of a passive Electronic Patient Record which can be viewed. The CDA now
includes all Pathology, Radiology, some Cardiology Results, Endoscopy reports,
ECG reports, alerts, clinical letters, TTO/Discharge summaries.
8. Information Governance
An Information Governance (IG) update will be presented to the next Trust Board meeting.
Our key target for this year is that by March 31 st , 2010, we must meet compliance by
achieving the appropriate level on the Information Governance toolkit which is an assurance
tool.
Compliance has been obtained for the IG Statement of Compliance by achieving level 2
and above across the core 25 standards.
9. Conclusion and Recommendations
The Board is recommended to:
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