Boosting clinical efficiency and patient safety
CCube Solutions has announced that Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully completed a complex project to fully integrate and embed its EDRM system – which contains over 80 million scanned legacy patient records - within Cerner’s Millennium EPR.
This is the first time this has been done in the UK and allows around 3,800 staff immediate access to digital patient notes contained in the CCube EDRM – viewed from within Millennium - without having to log in and out of the two systems, inputting their username/password or any medical record numbers.
Clinicians now just press an EDRM tab added within the Millennium menu and a viewer immediately displays the patient’s record from the CCube system. Easy and quick to then navigate, all the digital notes of an individual are displayed in folders on screen covering appointment letters, correspondence and the results of clinical trials.
The integration of the two system saves valuable time for busy clinicians. This is key as the number of patients treated at Milton Keynes University Hospital is substantial. In 2020/2021, there were 313,363 outpatient attendances, 22,208 non-elective admissions and 73,397 emergency department attendances.
Debbie Phillips, Milton Keynes University Hospital’s CCIO and consultant surgeon says, “The importance of opportunities to save clinical time within a digital system can’t be underestimated given the number of patients we have to treat.”
Vijay Magon, CCube Solutions’ managing director, added, “We are particularly pleased with The Trust’s move to digital cloud and adoption of our hosted EDRM. It’s definitely a way forward in the NHS given the maturity and security of cloud offerings.”
