Anna Kolosowska who wrote the 10 millionth case note on PARIS
Mobile technology is allowing health staff to make thousands of extra visits to patients in homes across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
The roll out of hundreds of extra remote access devices and the increased use of electronic records has allowed Cardiff and Vale University Health Board staff to increase the number of home visits by 16%.
Staff can now access a single electronic file for community and mental health patient details whether treating the patient at home or in hospital. It also means patients are less likely to need hospital admissions and can more easily access the service that is right for them.
Mark Cahalane, programme manager at Cardiff and Vale UHB, said more than 10 million case notes had now been written to its PARIS case management system.
He said: “The objective of the mobile project is to ensure effective and secure communication of key clinical events between divisions of the health board.
“Our staff can now visit patients anywhere in the field and both view and update their PARIS held clinical records remotely via their devices. This allows for hand written records to become a thing of the past, reducing the admin burden of duplicating work ‘back at base’ and giving staff additional patient contact time. Ultimately this improves the quality of care, which is our primary focus.”
The use of PARIS has improved the way patient details are kept and updated to provide better patient care at home and in the local community.
This, coupled with the recent rollout of 800 netbook devices throughout the community and mental health services teams has transformed healthcare across the health board, and will allow the Health Board to adapt to the proposed National Records solution to come over the next few years.
PARIS, which is Civica’s case management solution, has helped Cardiff and Vale UHB improve clinical outcomes, communications and absorb additional workload, as healthcare moves out of the hospital and into the community.
Each week over 32,500 clinical casenotes are entered into PARIS as well as vast numbers of referrals, clinical assessments and activity data.
Cardiff and Vale UHB has been using PARIS for almost 10 years, with over 1.6m casenotes created by 172 clinical delivery teams in the last year alone.
