EPR Consultant and Researcher at PeopleSource, United Kingdom
ver 35 years’ experience in the UK healthcare IT sector with deep expertise in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems. Previously held CIO and Board Director positions in the NHS. Experience of working at 18 NHS hospitals (as employee or contractor). Implemented 6 EPR systems in NHS hospitals (including Cambridge, UCLH and Chelsea & Westminster). London Regional Implementation Director for National Programme for IT. Experience of Cerner, Epic, InterSystems, Meditech, System C, GE, Allscripts and TPP. Researching and writing articles on the EPR market. Worked in primary care, acute care, central government and private health. Led PWC’s UK health IT consulting practice. Expert in EPR strategies, business cases, infrastructure, transformation, procurement, commercials and programme management. Worked in the US at NYU Langone Health, Mt Sinai Hospital, US National Health Service Corps, Public Health Research Institute, and as a Computer Science lecturer at New York University.
Session: Electronic Patient Record Systems in the UK
Integrated Electronic Patient Record Systems for Integrated Care Post-COVID-19
COVID-19 has demonstrated that high quality patient data is essential to support proper health and care responses to pandemics across populations. High quality patient data depends upon truly integrated electronic patient record (EPR) systems being used routinely at the point of care by clinicians and care teams. Our research has shown that only 62% of acute hospitals in the UK have integrated EPRs. The remaining 38% either have no EPR and still rely on paper records, or they have “best of breed” systems which rely on stitching together disparate clinical systems that were not designed to work together. So-called “interoperability” standards have not been seen to work at scale to integrate systems to form truly integrated EPRs. They entail passing small subsets of EPR data from one system to another and are fraught with data quality, out of date and single point of failure risks. This talk will present evidence to show the EPR market trend towards integrated as opposed to best of breed EPRs. It will also present the case for deploying EPRs across care settings to enable true patient-centred integrated care.
Learning outcomes:
- Learn how to engage clinicians and executives in the business case for integrated EPRs
- Learn how to create the vision for single integrated cross setting EPRs for their local populations
- Learn how to move CIOs from best of breed to truly integrated EPRs
- Understand which EPR vendors to follow when testing the EPR market for solutions
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