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Episodes Module
The Episodes module in PatientSource provides a central dynamic scheduling and bed-management hub to create and view the episodes, appointments and admissions of a patient journey. An episode is created under a Healthcare specialty and that episode will encompass information recorded during the patient journey.
All clinical activities for a patient during a period of care under that specialty appear within the Episodes module on the patient’s timeline. This allows administration and clinical teams to see everything that was provided to a patient in one summary view: referrals, appointments, admissions, case notes, procedures, prescriptions and tests.
Each clinical activity is timestamped allowing important metrics such as Referral-to-Treatment-Time (RTT), Expected Dates of Discharge (EDD) and length of stay to be analysed.
The scheduling engine allows for automatic appointment reminders to be sent to patients via SMS text and email to reduce Did Not Attend (DNA) rates. Attendance is captured and updated in real-time allowing DNAs to be analysed in realtime.
This provides patients with continuity of care as the services provided to them, under the episode within a specific period of time, are recorded centrally.
Benefits and Key Feature
Schedule patient appointments / admissions / ward attendances
Schedule clinics / theatre lists / investigation lists
Manage room resources and ward beds
By-patient timeline views
By-clinic calendar views
Room resource and patient slot collision detection
Analyse Did Not Attends and Referral To Treatment Times
“Interoperability is the future of digital healthcare, which is why it is at the centre of everything we do.”
Why switch to PatientSource?
Save time - An estimated 15% of clinical staff time is wasted looking for and handling paper notes
Save money - over £4,800,000-worth of staff time wasted at an average-sized NHS trust per annum. PatientSource is built on modern, battle-hardened Open Source components. No hidden licence fees.
Intelligent AI - PatientSource is powered by Artificial Intelligence to assist diagnosis, detect deterioration and forecast resource usage.
Cloud based - Massively reliable, automatically backed up. Never worry about running the infrastructure.
Interoperable - PatientSource can link with your legacy systems to provide a seamless interoperability ecosystem.
“Because our solution is modular and cloud based, we provide the flexibility to fit straight in to your clinic or hospital either as a departmental system or a greenfield solution that replaces your paper based processes.
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