Update on the XML Project at Oswestry
ABSTRACT
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust in Oswestry, is a specialist Trust which deals with a wide variety of musculo-skeletal disorders. Services include a sports injury clinic and an Orthotic Research and Locomotor Assessment Unit. In 1998/99, the Trust treated 8,500 inpatients and saw 40,000 outpatients. The hospital mainly serves the west of Shropshire, but for its tertiary services, it treats patients from all over Britain, Europe and North America. Increasing demands for clinical governance and audit, led the Trust to look for a new IT and communication system. They wanted a patient-centred Electronic Health Record, that could access the disparate systems throughout the Trust, giving clinicians the information they needed at the point of care. Working in partnership with Graphnet and Microsoft, the Trust has implemented an XML-based EPR system, that enables staff to use and interrogate the vast amount of text-based information in the hospital. This has resulted in a more efficient service for patients, delivered by better-informed staff. The Trust now has over 300,000 clinical records in XML - the largest repository of XML clinical records in the world.
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