ROYAL PAPWORTH HOSPITAL NHS
is “ world ’ s apart ” in its technological capabilities than it was when he first joined .
“ Today , we get to experience the effect of full fibre , with much more use of AV pretty much in every patient room . We ’ ve scaled up patient entertainment with a distributed antenna system ( DAS ) throughout the hospital including plug-in antennai from all the major mobile signals to help boost our mobile device capability , and we ’ ve got full RFID throughout the hospital for traceability on equipment .”
However , for Raynes , one of the biggest successes at Royal Papworth Hospital is its “ ability to integrate and interoperate with other technology solutions ”.
“ One of the major historical things we ’ ve learned , particularly across my time at the NHS , is that to have an effective patient record doesn ’ t mean we all have to be on the same patient record .
“ We ’ ve proved over and over again , we don ’ t need to do that . There ’ s a massive benefit to the use of interoperability standards . We were the first site in the UK to create a bidirectional interface using interoperability with EPIC .
“ Through interoperability , we ’ ve also been able to produce and send blood samples to neighbouring hospitals and get information back by sending data to and from different systems .”
The interoperable capabilities at Royal Papworth Hospital have only continued to grow . Most recently , technologists at the NHS have produced a shared care record ( essentially middleware ), allowing NHS staff to share data with the middleware that can then be distributed and exposed to other computer systems .
“ This approach will help to fix broken care pathways ,” adds Raynes , “ because it allows other hospitals or systems to see the data
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