United States: Orion Health EHR Solutions Help Hospitals in Scotland Move Toward Paperless Documentation.Byline: manish03 Orion Health congratulates NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is a new NHS board in West Central Scotland, created from the amalgamation of NHS Greater Glasgow and part of NHS Argyll and Clyde on April 1, 2006. Health Board on the opening of the new Stobhill hospital Stobhill Hospital is currently a general hospital with a 24-hour Accident and Emergency facility, it is located in the district of Springburn in the North of Glasgow. It serves the population of North Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire. . Core to the operation of the new hospital, which seeks to enhance the quality and speed of care delivered to patients, is the Orion Health Concerto Clinical Portal, which supports a virtually paperless environment. At the time of selection, Concerto was the only solution that could provide a single unified view of the information retrieved from the multiplicity of systems that we have in Glasgow and Clyde. That made our decision easy. We currently send 2000 medical documents and 1000 referral letters daily. People see the benefit in moving away from paper, but to work, a portal needs to be as effective and easy as a paper-based system. Luckily, the Concerto Portal is very intuitive, which plays a critical part in encouraging acceptance by the clinical staff Their dedication to providing better healthcare services for this large patient population is groundbreaking. We are sending about 30,000 demographic messages and 2000 documents each day and users are accessing in excess of 4,000 patient documents a day. The health board has plans to connect all ambulatory care ambulatory care n. Medical care provided to outpatients. ambulatory care, n the health services provided on an outpatient basis to those who can visit a health care facility and return home the same day. hospitals and acute sites in the health board region, and we look forward to partnering with them to meet these large-scale EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND goals Santa Monica, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 9, 2009 -- Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, congratulates NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board on the opening of the new Stobhill hospital, which will provide outpatient clinics, day surgery and diagnostic services diagnostic services, n.pl the imaging and laboratory capabilities available for determining the cause of an illness. . The hospital will provide a number of specialist services such as cardiology, renal dialysis and gynecology to over 400,000 patients per year. Core to the operation of the new hospital, which seeks to enhance the quality and speed of care delivered to patients, is the Orion Health Concerto Clinical Portal, which supports a virtually paperless environment. Formed in 2006, the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board is the largest health board in the United Kingdom, employing over 44,000 staff, including 300 general practitioners, and delivers services through 35 major hospitals, dental services in more than 270 locations, 300 pharmacies, 10 specialized units and 50 health centers and clinics. Since inception, one of the first priorities for the health board was to make it easier for its tens of thousands of providers across dozens of facilities to access patient medical records electronically. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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