Electronic Patient Record
An electronic patient record is a system of managing clinical information, to make it easily available for use by doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and patients.
The planned three Acute Trust (NNUH, JPUH and QEH) integrated Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme is a flagship project for our hospitals and will support organisation-wide transformation of how we work and deliver care.
Some of the aims of the EPR include:
- Safer care for patients because electronic notes are always available to all clinicians
- Reduction in the number of times you need to log into different systems
- Reduction of the reliance on slow paper processes, and risks of lost or misplaced documents
- Support for more flexible and collaborative ways of working
- Making information available for clinical decision-making, quality improvement, and research purposes
- Improve operational performance, and putting our patients at the centre of our care.
Your EPR programme team, consisting of doctors, nurses, managers, operational, admin and digital health colleagues, continue to work to implement this transformational change. Having secured approval for the business case and appointed Meditech as the supplier of a system called Expanse, the team is now working on adapting that system to meet our specific needs. They are conducting a number of design, build and test phases which will be approved by all impacted teams.
Together with wider representation for across our hospitals, we are on the verge of realising our shared vision, to bring the EPR programme to life within our organisations.
Most NHS hospitals have, or are working on, an EPR to help them face the demands of 21st century healthcare. This is a really exciting time for our three organisations and we’re now looking to take this forward.
You can find out more about the EPR programme by visiting our dedicated webpage on the Norfolk and Waveney ICS website.