Again, this depends on whether the hospital concerned differentiates in its patient administration system.
This has slowed progress on release 2, the patient administration system that forms the core of the care records service.
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS trust has already rolled out its e-board to all 20 wards and is now in the process of embedding the model into its new patient administration system.
Once it is embedded into the patient administration system it will also offer clinicians the chance to check other patient information – such as blood test results – at the same time.
The South Acute Programme, a collaboration of 21 acute trusts, have formed six groups to invest in a range of new technology, including e-prescribing, a clinical portal and a patient administration system.
Digitising patient records is also on the trust's agenda: in April, it will replace paper records with a new Ascribe Symphony patient administration system in its emergency department, procured before Circle took over, and it has also bought a new radiology information system.
Renegotiation talks on the three contracts with US outsourcing group Computer Sciences Corporation CSCC) reached impasse after CSC failed to successfully install its first Lorenzo patient administration system – managing patient bookings and referrals – at an acute hospital trust by today's deadline.
Demographic, clinical and surgery-related data were obtained from patient case notes and the in-house electronic patient administration system (iSOFT 2010).
Patients admitted to the study wards during the data collection period were identified daily (Monday to Friday) by the research pharmacist using the hospital Patient Administration System (PAS).
We used microbiology and patient administration system data from an Oxford hospital to estimate monthly rates of first nosocomial MRSA bacteraemia, and nosocomial MRSA isolation from blood/respiratory/sterile site specimens ("sterile sites") or all clinical samples (screens excluded) in all patients admitted from the community for at least 2 days between April 1998 and June 2006.
