Papworth Hospital deploys electronic referral module

Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire has installed an e-referrals application as part of its journey towards an electronic patient records (EPR) system.

The hospital already had a document management system which started life as a pilot five years ago, but the addition of the electronic referrals process allows the hospital to keep a closer eye on patients while reducing paper and sharing patient details more easily between hospital staff.

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The largest cardiothoracic centre in the country installed its referral workflow using CCube Solution, which provides a workflow and e-forms.

“It’s a stepping stone towards a full-blown electronic patient records system,” says David Wilcox, Papworth’s Hospital’s business change and information management and technology project manager. “We’re supposed to be going on with that next year, and really this is partly to get our people up to speed using electronic systems.”

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