Using TrackCare software, a system that functions as an electronic clinical report, Scotland will unify its information service on all health councils operating in the region. The british country seeks to optimize and modernize health processes.
Scotland has begun to expand the use of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) throughout its medical advice implemented by the NHS.
So far 12 of the 14 councils are running it collaboratively with the TrackCare system, developed by InterSystems, which works to provide unified patient information for follow-up in hospitals and clinics.
TrackCare seeks to modernize clinical information systems and minimize biases and errors that may occur in diagnostics. It also generates vast and summarized reports that are connected to various specialists who carry out effective follow-up.
With this implementation, clinical records management can be improved, the patient's evolution and condition better analyzed, and costs and times optimized.
With this, and according to InterSystems, EPR's new software will be able to work with data from 95% of the Scottish population and will be used by approximately 4,000 employees of Scotland's Forth Valley.
Another relevant development is the overall patient's clinical history index along with their detailed information. The sectors benefiting from this tool are doctors, practitioners and patients. Advancement is expected to help community services such as general medicine practices, mental health, and community nursing.
Scotland has overtaken England in the use and improvement of Digital Clinical Reports, according to information from Digital Health Intelligence. This will provide the country with significant monetary savings by lowering the costs of storing, transporting and tracking paper records; at the same time, an immediate and effective record of patient admissions, discharges and transfers is achieved; easy to access from the web, with visual alerts and patient reports; test and laboratory exams organization and access that will ease and reduce evidence; real-time bed use management, for the best use of medical center resources.
This is how the implementation of the Electronic Patient Registry (EPR) in the United Kingdom, the Family Card in El Salvador, the Electronic Health Record History (EHR) in the United States and Latin American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, etc., means a critical step forward in achieving platforms that allow countries to keep the medical records updated of each citizen.
Undoubtedly great steps in the start of the digitization of health with a view to being able to turn the information network into a global solution.
