3.3.4 Enhance connectedness within the LHD and across care settings
It is envisioned that the current hybrid medical record scattered across paper and fragmented speciality systems, will be integrated together to form a single digital patient record across our district and the state, enhancing connectedness within and outside the LHD
Initiative
High Level Description
Expected Benefits
Implementation considerations
Leading Entity
Enhance the connectedness within the LHD and across other public hospitals in the state through the adoption of the Single Digital Patient Record statewide program. Examples of potential activities include: ► Ensuring that comprehensive, accurate, integrated and accessible healthcare records are available to clinicians at the point of care
Integrated medical record across most clinical specialities Integrated, accurate, accessible and real time information availability Improved multidisciplinary collaboration Increased statewide view of patient journey Reduced patient risk related to hybrid medical records Increased sophistication in analytics and reporting capabilities
Consider change management efforts and implications of moving to a statewide clinical platform including:
Northern Sydney LHD in partnership with eHealth NSW
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4.1 Implement the Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR)
Identification of the appropriate executive oversight, governance and leadership required for a program of the scale and size of the SDPR Considerations to the impact on medical staff and their requirements for local workflows and functionality Considerations to the implications of the statewide SDPR on workforce practices, roles and responsibilities of the local ICT function Work with the appropriate statewide bodies to have a voice on the district's requirements across speciality clinical areas Co-design the solution with representatives from all parts of the LHD Consider being a pilot site for the first rollout of SDPR Consider the timeframe of this project and vary the local eMR investments accordingly.
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Ensuring pharmacy systems integrate with statewide systems
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► Leveraging NSW Pathology statewide laboratory information solutions
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Linking community, inpatient, and outpatient services
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► Consolidating patient administration and electronic medical record systems, in order to action the gaps identified on initiative ‘2.1 Respond to the major eMR gaps in clinical specialty areas’; support the enhancements on initiative ‘ 2.2 Continue to enhance the eMR’; and allow for a mobile workforce as per initiative 2.5 Improve clinical mobility.
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Improved quality and safety
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Better patient engagement possibilities.
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