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Free office and mobile healthcare workers from wasteful data collection tasks…
Every minute spent by a healthcare worker on collecting clinical data is a minute less spent practising their core competency. Multiply this wastage across the thousands of skilled staff employed by many public and private healthcare organisations and not only does the organisational efficiency suffer but, more crucially, so too does the quality of patient care.
NHS Connecting for Health, the government agency responsible for delivering the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) committed the NHS to lifelong electronic health records for everyone. Under the programme a number of Enterprise Wide Agreements (EWAs) were struck with IT sub-contractors such as Microsoft, EMC Documentum and Cisco systems.
Formic Fusion for healthcare survey software automatically feeds these systems with information about patient records and best clinical practice, for example, from care pathway documents. Traditional methods of entering such data proved to be a ludicrous waste of time and consisted of printing forms to paper, distributing among clinical staff and patients and then manually keying information from the completed forms. The only justification for expending so much effort was the value of the data to NHS clinicians.
Formic Fusion for Healthcare is clinical data collection especially pre-configured for healthcare organisations. If you want to work with paper, then the solution will automatically scan, read and extract information from any form you choose. Built using Microsoft technologies, the software connects seamlessly to Microsoft Windows and Office applications such as Access or Excel or to any application of choice by selecting the preferred file format for transfer. Only minimal human intervention is required; to process the exceptions that occur when the software spots an error, anomaly or missing piece of information.
If you want to reduce the volume of paper flowing through your healthcare organisation then why not start with an electronic form and collect the information electronically in the first place? Formic Fusion for Healthcare allows you to design your data collection form and publish it to the web or deploy it to a Windows Mobile PC device for completion at the frontline. Our mobile healthcare software for emergency care practitioners (ECPs) in ambulance services is award winning.
The advantages are great; no paper, no printer, no scanner and no physical storage space are needed. Turnaround time is much quicker and the quality of information is noticeably higher too because electronic forms cannot be submitted until they have been validated.
With Formic Fusion for Healthcare’s mobile healthcare software, patient information can be made available at the front line, for example, to ward or district nurses. Just enter a preselected piece of data, such as the patient’s last name, and your form is pre-populated with other information from the patient record. Not only does this save valuable time but also protects data integrity by relying on a single source for patient information.
Walk around many healthcare organisation and you’ll find store rooms filled to the roof with boxes of paper files, sometimes over spilling into corridors. It will come as no surprise then that our customers have chosen Formic Fusion for Healthcare to digitise these documents and strip out the valuable information they contain. The variety of uses found is extensive: -
Formic Fusion for Healthcare is in constant use by over 200 NHS Trusts, PCTs, Mental Health Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and Health Boards across the UK, Ireland and South Africa.
Formic acquired its first healthcare customer, The Royal College of Surgeons, in 1991. Since then we’ve accumulated a wealth of knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing healthcare organisations that is evident in our consulting practice and project management teams. For you, this means hassle-free implementation and a solution that is ready to use in the shortest possible time.
Formic Fusion for Healthcare is, without doubt, the safe choice for healthcare professionals.
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