The spinal injuries system will handle patients admitted from A&E, ITU, orthopedic surgeons and neurologists or wards from any hospital within the catchments area.
In all, 52 workstations will be installed including 10 wireless laptops for use in remote locations and at the bedside. The laptops remove the need for transcription of paper notes into ‘centralized’ computers. The multidisciplinary team will have access to, and be able to input information into, systems in their own environments.
The Trust says that while the system will underpin the work of the therapy and rehabilitation departments, it will also assist in researching the most effective treatment regimes and implementing the spinal injury care practices for patients across the region.
Professor Charles Greenough, clinical director of trauma and orthopedics at South Tees said, we are building new processes of care and are developing new care capabilities with more outreach clinics, liaison spinal injury nurse specialists seeing patients in their own homes and more timely and comprehensive communications with GPs. To support this, the new system will enable us to move from manual records to the provision of modern, state-of-the-art fully integrated patient care.
