Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has embarked on a major medical records digitisation project with partners System C, IMMJ Systems and Iron Mountain.
The project will see more than 180,000 medical records securely scanned into the IMMJ Systems MediViewer Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)
The project is part of the trust's EPR programme, working in partnership with supplier System C. It aims to put the trust at the forefront of digital excellence by providing clinicians with intuitive digital workflows, decision support and care planning capabilities to provide patient care.
As part of this digitisation programme, the trust went live with the fully integrated EDMS MediViewer from IMMJ Systems in rheumatology in early September 2021 and is now live across most specialties.
The MediViewer EDMS software integrates seamlessly with System C's Careflow EPR to provide clinical-context launching of the digitised record. The tightly integrated platform enables clinical and clerical users to view the complete history for each patient attending the trust and search through the record for key clinical documents via the MediViewer SmartIndexing technology.
Iron Mountain (IRM) is contracted to digitise all active patient records for the trust, while the trust manages the day forward scanning in-house with the support of IMMJ Systems. Iron Mountain’s ingestion process provides electronic handshakes as content flows between the delivery systems, ensuring strict compliance with latest data privacy and industry regulations.
The combined solutions will provide instantaneous access to scanned medical records via the CareFlow EPR, safely and securely. The speed and intuitive design of the MediViewer EDMS means that simple but rich features enable clinical users to easily find the key documentation needed at the point of care, especially as MediViewer not only uses optical character recognition to ingest information (scanned or born-digital) but applies its SmartIndexing technology over the top, classifying information so it can be found via a single click of a button.
