Special report: Electronic document management
Electronic document management may have its roots in archiving, but increasingly EDM systems are the store and delivery mechanism for unstructured content of all kinds. Kim Thomas reports.
Clinical Software
Special report: EDM/ Scanning
How much paper is it worth scanning as part of an electronic document management project? It’s a fraught question, but the answer seems to be ‘less than you might think’ and ‘only what you plan for’. Kim Thomas reports.
Clinical Software
Southampton plans three-site EDM project
A Southampton hospital plans to digitise its existing patient records and replace paper processes with electronic forms using Hyland’s electronic document management system OnBase by Hyland, before closing its records library in 2017.
Infrastructure
Hospital stops record scanning
A Birmingham hospital trust has halted plans to scan its entire library of paper patient records.
Infrastructure
Special report: Electronic Document Management
As it moves towards paperless working by the end of the decade, the NHS will need both electronic patient record and electronic document management systems. But what, exactly, is the role of EDM? And why has uptake been relatively slow?
Infrastructure
Health CIO profile: Joanna Smith
The chief information officer of Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust arrived from global pharma with a remit to transform its IT operations. Sam Sachdeva talks to her.
Feature
Royal Free invests in EDM
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust will digitise 850,000 patient notes over the next three years using an electronic document management system from OpenText.
News
From the Heart and Chest
To scan or not to scan, that is the question… facing Johan Waktare, a consultant at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, and clinical lead on its electronic patient record.
Feature