Solution

SynApps provided the Trust with a secure, cloud-based Unified Health Information System from Aptvision. This browser-based solution provides Radiology teams with centralised oversight of the entire workload across the customers different sites. In so doing, it improves vetting and prioritisation of patients referred and reduces turnaround times for priority scanning and reporting. The system has been integrated with all the Trust’s modalities and a new set of workflows configured providing electronic scheduling and vetting using SynApps’ modern, flexible browser-based solution. It has been deployed across the trusts three main sites where the Radiology department is based. All existing Radiology data including the legacy reports were migrated to the new platform.

Project Success

The SynApps-Aptvision solution, which is 100% web based, allows the Trust’s radiology services to be coordinated digitally from anywhere as part of a ‘paperless NHS’. Ultimately the digitisation of the referral and vetting process enables better patient outcomes, improves resource use, and reduces missed appointments, which are thought to account for up to 10 per cent of appointments across public hospitals.

The Trust is currently deploying a second phase covering access for referring doctors using the platforms Referral Web Portal. This will speed up the referral process further and provide doctors with additional access and controls over the appointments they make and faster access to the finalised report.