Acute Hospital
"A Hospital without walls"

Challenge

Hospitals are being forced to review their traditional role. The NHS must realise £20 Billion savings over the next 3 years. In addition, it faces the demands of an ageing population and ever-increasing patient expectations. Acute Trusts must now embrace change and innovate to meet the challenges of 21st Century Healthcare.

Emerging treatment models which transfer care away from hospitals and into the community require a mindset to service delivery that is not restricted by bricks and mortar.

What is needed is a virtual hospital.

In the report "Healthcare IT Maturity Model", Lynne Dunbrack and Marc Holland describe the virtual hospital as "a hospital which has not only fully automated its processes and clinical functions, but has also begun to expand its working reach outside of the hospital's four walls."

Solution

The Graphnet "Hospital without walls" is about a new way of thinking about integrated service delivery.

This new approach encompasses a single portal view of a patient's clinical information across the Acute Trust and the natural community. Information from disparate systems and medical devices is pulled together to give a comprehensive patient centric record. There is no need to replace existing IT solutions and the system will also work alongside, connect to and complement local service provider (LSP) reference solutions.

The Graphnet Virtual Hospital provides a secure integrated electronic patient record across the hospital that can also be shared with other healthcare providers outside of the physical constraints of hospital buildings such as GPs, and community staff.

A single portal view allows the sharing of information entered in multiple systems. The information entered into existing systems is instantly available in the Graphnet system. The shared care record can be enriched with additional information and functionality from programs provided by Graphnet, internal development teams, legacy systems or third-parties.

Key Features

• Inpatient and Outpatient attendances
• A&E Attendance Information
• Discharge Letters and Clinic Notes
• Pathology/Radiology Results
• Clinical Notes
• Immediate Discharge Summaries
• Scanned GP Referral Letters
• Community Clinic Notes
• Hospital Care Plans
• Cancer MDT Reports
• X-rays
• Allergies
• Current medications (issues and repeats)
• Integration with clinical devices

Benefits

• Gives clinicians the right information at the right time
• More time can be spent on direct patient care due to reduced duplication
• Enables clinical information to be viewed at the point of care inside and outside the hospital
• Utilises existing systems reducing abortive spend
• Minimises the time spent casting around for information
• 24 hour access - including secure remote log on
• Full audit trail of use
• Guides staff through the clinical process
• Enables best practice information to be available at point of care
• Underpins effective development of Care Pathways
• Requests are legible and results instantly available
• User friendly (training typically takes 30 minutes)

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