Salford's Health Investment for Tomorrow
5 Projects that are changing the face of health services in Salford
Salford's IT Priorities
The success of Salford’s clinical service re-design will depend on the availability of a range of IM&T services, including:
- Electronic Communication: between patients, staff and organisations
- Electronic Booking: of appointments
- Electronic Medical Records: providing electronic ordering and results, electronic prescribing, care pathways, patient access/health records, alerts and decision support, telecare, electronic image management and multimedia
- Knowledge Access & Education: for patients and professionals
- Messaging Standards & Datasets
- Information Services: for data analysis, reporting etc.
The benefits these systems will bring will be recognised by patients, service users and staff as a more streamlined and ‘joined up’ system of healthcare, regardless of where services are provided. It has long been recognised that delays occur when information is required to be moved from one part of the system to another, such as to initiate a test, consultation or to return a test report. Such delays will be significantly reduced by the deployment of technology.
The local rollout of technology is scheduled to complement the necessary replacement of existing systems and the development of new services.