Market:

Healthcare

Client Type:

Teaching and Research Hospital

Solution:

Medical Records

Project:

ECM Alfresco Content Services with EPR

Challenges

This Trust needed to establish an Electronic Medical Records solution as part of the deployment of a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system, however, the volume of patient records was in excess of initial Trust estimates. The project was also constrained by budgetary challenges, process delays and a lack of skilled resource availability. At the same time, third party scanning and incorporation of records faced logistics issues, while data transfer to the ServiceMix Integration Engine was dependent upon existing service levels agreed with network service providers.

Solution

The solution outlined how the medical records data would be drawn from the Trust’s selected scanning bureau and how the integration of the EPR with the Alfresco Electronic Content Management (ECM) platform would ensure each captured medical record could be displayed within the context of a user-selected patient. Following a successful POC, the solution went live in May 2017, with additional projects relating to Integration with Cerner (New EPR), Postage Integration (incoming mail) Internal Centralised Scanning, Referrals and WinDip migration completed since.

Project Success

From the start, SynApps built relationships to empower people and focus a group of geographically dispersed individuals to work together towards a common goal. As a result, the project was delivered within agreed timeframes and budget, with clinicians using the solution successfully for the retrieval of both legacy and day forward medical records. The Trust now enjoys an end-to-end ECM solution for the capture, storage, management and retrieval of Medical Records, enabling it to commence a controlled roll-out of the solution across the hospital.

The SynApps Difference

SynApps is an established Alfresco partner working with organisations looking to utilise an open source platform to implement Enterprise Content Management throughout the corporation. Through our extensive experience gained over many years of successfully deploying large-scale ECM solutions across a wide range of industry sectors, SynApps project teams ensure that your projects are delivered on-time with the quality to transform your business operations and deliver real business benefit.