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Enabling the national digital agenda: myhealth@QEHB, now and the future James Ferguson Consultant Hepatologist QEHB Birmingham
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Enabling the national digital agenda: myhealth@QEHB, now and the future James Ferguson Consultant Hepatologist QEHB Birmingham.

Dec 14, 2015

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Page 1: Enabling the national digital agenda: myhealth@QEHB, now and the future James Ferguson Consultant Hepatologist QEHB Birmingham.

Enabling the national digital agenda: myhealth@QEHB, now and the future

James FergusonConsultant Hepatologist

QEHBBirmingham

Page 2: Enabling the national digital agenda: myhealth@QEHB, now and the future James Ferguson Consultant Hepatologist QEHB Birmingham.

The idea

• Patients often request to see their letters and results

• QEHB has advanced electronic systems; results , letters and electronic prescribing

• Patients often travel great distances for care and have multiple providers

• Most patients access and use the internet for many services

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Support

• The medical director and chief executive (key)

• Informatics team

• IT department

• Patients

• Colleagues

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Pilot phase

• Initial pilot of 12 patients with liver disease (2011)

• Developed in conjunction with the patients

• Development group included clinician, patient, IT, informatics, communications team

• Pilot funded by

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Roll out

• Business case presented to board

• Approved

• Project group (clinician, patients, IT, informatics and communications team)

• Clinical group

• Went live August 2012

• 4000 users across a range of specialties

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Key Functionality

Patients can view• Letters (including GP and

external provider letters)• Blood tests (including GP

results)• Information relating to their

condition• Contact details

Patients can enter• Diary information• A biography• Letters/ blood results for

viewing by clinical team• BP• Weight• Blood sugars

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A digital challenge

• In line with the governments information strategy

• ‘Information about me and my care’

• Key ambition • A change in culture and mindset, so that our health and care

professionals, organisations and systems recognise that the information in each of our own care records is fundamentally about us – and so that it becomes routine for us to be able to access our own records online.

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Future developments

• Virtual clinics/consultations– in line with digital first initiative

• Care plans and competencies e.g. dialysis patients

• Teleheath– In line with 3 million lives initiative

• Research version

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Evaluation and Research

• Key performance indicators regularly monitored by project group

• Patient and clinicians evaluations have been performed

• The system is part of 2 research grant applications

• It has not yet been formally evaluated in a research setting

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Can it be adopted elsewhere?

• Yes

• It requires basic building blocks• Electronic labs system• Electronic letters

• It requires commitment from trust at senior levels and investment

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• Initiated by a clinician

• Developed in conjunction with IT and patients

• 4000 users after 1 year

• In line with government policy

• Future developments

• Can be adopted elsewhere