CLINiCOM is a proven, reliable and cost-effective system that delivers excellent levels of clinical support, underpinned by a wealth of core administrative components.  Upgrading your existing CLINiCOM system could give your trust the additional functionality and graphical user interface that you have been looking for.  So what are the benefits?

Key Benefits

• clinical support functions designed to improve patient care, save time and improve business processes
• offers trusts a range of new features together with improvements to functionality already familiar to CLINiCOM users
• this familiarity minimises functional training needs, reducing time away from busy wards and departments
• no data migration required, and existing master files continue to be used throughout
• user-friendly graphical interface and flexible navigation facilities support existing processes and help improve efficiency
• encased in an intuitive, flexible and modern system that can be utilised by both administrative and clinical staff
• PatientCentre is suitable for use on tablet PCs and computers on wheels (COWs)
• Patient kiosks - The self service touch screen check-in module allows patients of all ages to check themselves in for their appointment via an easy to use and accessible touch screen kiosk. Patients using check-in have their current demographic and appointment status automatically updated into PAS
• document management functionality.  WinDIP is a proven and highly successful document management system that allows patient documents to be stored in context with the patients PAS record
• both keyboard and mouse can be used to provide easy navigation around the system
• recognisable standard Windows and browser features help speed implementation and familiarisation.
  

Solution Overview

Information Display

• orders displayed in user definable folders allowing filtering of what are displayed (recent, no result yet, result available)
• graphical display of all patient activity on a timeline
• chronological view of all activity
• drill down facility to view activity detail, including view only display of documents
• multiple tabs open together to provide concurrent view of clinical information
• orders displayed in user definable folders allowing filtering of what are displayed (recent, no result yet, result available).

Clinical Noting

Patient Documents

• word documents filed as part of the EPR
• predefined Word templates with mail merge facility to populate documents with data held in the record, reducing the need for duplicate data entry
• read only format for finalised documents
• ability to use WinDIP has an integrated document management tool.

Patient Lists

• bring together groups of similar patients, so avoiding the need to search the PMI, reducing clinical risk
• user definable data displayed
• ability to sort by any displayed data item
• use of colour for waiting times, results and alerts, improving clinical safety
• selecting a patient from a list then allows any available function to be used. No need to search for patients at the beginning of every function
• personal lists can be built containing records gathered for review at audit and clinical meetings
• tool tips can be created to provide help and guidance
• bring together groups of similar patients, thus avoiding the need to search the PMI, reducing clinical risk

Hotlinks

• quick access to frequently used functions
• context sensitive, different links on different lists.

Login Options

• users can be notified of new results, alerts, admission, referral and waiting lists entries at login rather than having to search for them
• display of calendar, daily schedule, task pad and personal contacts with drill down to clinic list
• users can be notified of new results, alerts, admission, referral and waiting lists entries at login rather than having to search for them.

Progress Notes

• free text entry within the patient record
• annotation of anatomical drawings
• audit of revisions made to notes, with display of text before and after changes made
• locally defined clinical record collection
• multiple response types: text, numeric, score calculation
• validation to ensure correct input, including highlighting of unexpected values against defined ranges
• graphical presentation of numeric values.

Bed Management

• graphical presentation of current bed state
• comprehensive overview of bed availability
• forecasting future bed capacity requirements
• easily identifiable activity – expected admissions, transfers and discharges to allow workload planning
• real time bed state ability
• clearly identified delayed discharges and outliers to prompt action required
• graphical presentation of current bed state.

Clinical Rules Engine

• user defined messages displayed to authorised users accessing records when user defined rules are true
• alerting clinical information such as registered organ donors
• alerting clerical information such as transport needs or translation requirements
• user defined messages displayed to authorised users accessing records when user defined rules are true

Results Sign Off

• electronic signoff of results and comments made.

Timeline

• graphical or chronological view of patient activity
• graphical display of all patient activity on a timeline
• chronological view of all activity
• drill down facility to view activity detail, including view only display of documents.

Clinical Summary

Display of:

• basic medical details
• diagnosis and procedure coding
• results – with reference ranges provided by departmental system
• flowsheets
  

Manchester Triage Score

• colour coding displayed to show priority assigned
• discriminator and complaint default to reduce repetitive data entry.

Functional Improvements

• user-defined menus
• functions can be logically grouped in any order
• functions can be grouped under local headings or can always be visible
• easier to control access to functions than multiple function sets
• no need for users to switch between function sets
• links to other applications, such as trust intranets and the internet can be added, improving adherence to local and national guidelines
• links to other software and systems, e.g. Word and Excel can be included
• user-defined menus.

Data Entry

• data can be entered in functions in any order rather than moving linearly from prompt to prompt
• revision/review of data easier because no need to go through several screens to reach a specific prompt
• data can be entered in functions in any order rather than moving linearly from prompt to prompt.

Patient Kiosks - Savience

• integrated patient kiosk module, this module allows the patient to use self service kiosks were the patient can quickly and efficiently check into busy clinics, improving the patient’s journey through the hospital and also improving the patient’s hospital experience. Please see the section on Savience, patient kiosks.
  
• Information Display
  - windows environment allows better data display/layout of all data
  - results display can have multiple user defined views of results available at the same time
  - graphical display of numeric results (linear scale line, logarithmic scale line and bar charts)
  - outpatient booking functions display both a summary of sessions (number of available slots etc) and details of timeslots for selected session on the same, split screen
  - summary display of important patient information in the screen banner line
  - graphical Clinician diary function for AHPs.

 

Order Entry

• moves away from screen based approach to order based selection
• commonly used orders grouped on user defined tabs and screen
• moves away from screen based approach to order based selection.

Other Benefits

• dates in breach of wait time displayed clearly to prevent inappropriate selection
• breaches of target wait times easily identifiable, C&B protected slots in clinic easily identifiable
• RTT – colour coding of wait time on all relevant screens
• low risk and low cost
• scalable
• ease of integration with other third party products.

 

For any enquiries please email uki.info@isofthealth.com