info@healthcarecomputing.co.uk 0845 0346344
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Accreditations
    • Partners
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Meet the Team
    • Careers
  • Services
  • Sectors
    • General Practice
    • CCG
    • CSU
    • Community Care
  • Media Centre
    • News
    • Videos
    • Resources
    • Testimonials
  • Customer Portal
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Information Governance Policy
    • CLIENT – GDPR policy
    • Terms of use
    • Cookies
    • ISO 9001:2015
    • Network Services Terms & Conditions
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Carbon Neutral Organisation
    • Environment Policy
    • Returns Policy
    • Job Applicant Privacy Notice
    • Equal Opportunities
    • Staff Harassment & Abuse
    • Covid-19 – Healthcare Computing statement
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Accreditations
    • Partners
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Meet the Team
    • Careers
  • Services
  • Sectors
    • General Practice
    • CCG
    • CSU
    • Community Care
  • Media Centre
    • News
    • Videos
    • Resources
    • Testimonials
  • Customer Portal
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Information Governance Policy
    • CLIENT – GDPR policy
    • Terms of use
    • Cookies
    • ISO 9001:2015
    • Network Services Terms & Conditions
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Carbon Neutral Organisation
    • Environment Policy
    • Returns Policy
    • Job Applicant Privacy Notice
    • Equal Opportunities
    • Staff Harassment & Abuse
    • Covid-19 – Healthcare Computing statement
  • Contact Us

Dorset Health Economy improves efficiencies and reduces time with HC’s Wireless solution

Dorset HealthCare has a distributed workforce of over 5000 clinical and nursing staff distributed throughout Dorset serving a population of three quarters of a million. The Trust took a significant step forward in Digital by Default with the implementation of electronic patient record. For the first time a comprehensive picture of care was available across the 14 Community Hospitals, 9 Minor Injury Units and 568 GPs. Following the successful electronic patient record deployment across Dorset Healthcare’s clinical services, it was recognised full benefits to patients and staff could not be realised due to the challenging mobile phone coverage.

HC’s solution. Commissioners for the county, the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group launched a competitive tender for a comprehensive, patient centric county wide Wi Fi solution. Staying true to the Health and Social Care agenda, the solution had to ensure that all agencies within the Dorset Health Economy could access the Wi Fi, including 3rd sector. Healthcare Computing, in partnership with Dorset CCG, delivered a Wireless solution for the entire Dorset health economy, with access for the CCG, practice staff, and community staff from Dorset HealthCare. This allows the significant number of highly mobile community staff, with over 3000 devices, to access clinical systems, seamlessly roaming across over 130 locations across Dorset. This provides convenient secure access to wireless networking services for use within the practices including; service for laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices.

Challenge. Prior to this project, staff at Dorset CCG and Dorset HealthCare had restricted access to their systems from fixed pc’s or intermittent mobile coverage, particularly in the West of the county. Staff found they were spending more time logging in than actually using the system which is simply unsustainable. Prior to the wireless project they had to rely on taking notes when they were working in different locations and then having to input all of this information into the patient records within their clinical system at a later time when back at their base. This situation was wasting both time and money, and with the risk of missing information or data being lost, as this was not being updated in real time. This delay in inputting the information in “real time” also lessens opportunities for hospital avoidance through interactions between District Nursing and Intermediate Care teams and patients who are deteriorating rapidly. But using the Wi Fi as a foundation and the opportunities it provides for joint agency working, there are invigorated and aspirational conversations underway to provide even better joined up patient care.

Additionally, it is saving time and costs for Dorset HealthCare as community staff do not need to travel back to their base to update the records. The solution is ideally placed to deliver on Martha Lane Fox’s “Wi Fi” for all recommendation catapulting Dorset to the forefront of this exciting, new digital age.

  • Posted by Nuria Sanchez
  • On 12 October 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • 0 likes
Tags: case study, community, dorset ccg, improve efficiencies, mobile working, money saving, reduce time, Wireless

0 Comments

Recent Posts
  • HC supports the deployment of the National Vaccination programme in the South England 21 July 2021
  • HIOW – 20H2 Update Guide 20 July 2021
  • HC awarded place on Technology Services 3 Framework 22 June 2021
Categories
  • Awards
  • Blog
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Customer Feedback
  • Events
  • hiow
  • News
  • Partners
  • Service
  • SonicWall
Archive
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • September 2020
  • February 2019
  • January 2019

HC announces attendance at EMIS NUG

Healthcare Computing exhibits at EHI Live conference

Scroll

Slide HC, Crown Commercial, Technology Services Framework ITIL Accreditation HSCN logo Prince2 Accreditation NHS Third Party Commercial Suppliers

Healthcare Computing Ltd
Unit 10, Millstream Trading Estate
Christchurch Road, Ringwood
Hampshire BH24 3SB
Registered in England. No 03869398

Contact Us
info@healthcarecomputing.co.uk
0845 0346344

Services
  • Multi Agency Wireless Solutions
  • NHS Cyber Security solutions
  • Digital Transformation Projects
  • Mobile Working Solutions
Sector
  • CSU
  • CCG
  • General Practice
  • Community Care
Information
  • Policies
  • Cookies
  • Privacy Policy
  • Website sitemap
© 2016 Healthcare Computing Ltd. All rights reserved.