CCube Solutions has been selected by the Aneurin Bevan Health Board to deliver a Trust-wide electronic document and records management system (EDRMS). The Health Board provides acute, community, mental and child health services to 639,000 people in South Wales, approximately 21% of the total Welsh population.
CCube is supplying the CCube EDRMS software suite, specifically designed to deliver paperless healthcare to the NHS. Its partner, US firm BancTec, is providing support and maintenance services.
Aneurin Bevan is the first health board in NHS Wales to procure an EDRMS. The two companies were selected because they provided a cost effective and proven solution to digitising patient records.
Vijay Magon, managing director, CCube Solutions, said, “A number of NHS Trusts are already using our software Trust-wide and have stopped using paper case notes entirely. We are unique in this market in that we can point to substantial and measurable financial and clinical benefits our users are already achieving with our electronic health record.”
Aneurin Bevan Health Board will first focus on scanning and publishing health records, and will then move on to digitally capture information from additional sources. The EDRMS will introduce electronic workflow to maximise productivity and increase patient safety and the quality of care.
Steven Harding, Informatics Directorate at Aneurin Bevan Health Board, said, “We are looking to create ready electronic access to patient records. This will reduce the costs and risks currently associated with securely managing and storing our paper health records.”
“But more importantly, we will increase the accessibility of the patient record for staff, making information available at the click of a mouse which reduces the time spent in clinics and wards locating crucial information”, he added.
Harding concludes, “By integrating CCube EDRMS into our current clinical information systems, we will have created a significant potential to improve clinical and clinical support processes across the board and ultimately to improve the level of patient care we provide.”
NHS Wales has developed a clinical portal, known as the Welsh Clinical Portal, as part of its national clinical information systems strategy. The CCube solution will integrate both with this portal, once it is fully developed and rolled out nationally, and with Aneurin Bevan’s existing local clinical portal, known as Clinical Work Station.
The CCube solution will also interface with the Myrddin PAS, National Active Directory and the national Master Patient Index. The Health Records Service will administer the system, and the installation will be on a new infrastructure and cabling scheme.
