BMJ’s clinical decision support tool BMJ Best Practice has been selected by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) for integration into their Servelec Rio Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. This integration will allow healthcare professionals to easily access the latest clinical information within the patient workflow - helping to improve outcomes.
Healthcare professionals at CNTW will be able to see a ‘BMJ Best Practice’ search bar at the top of their Rio EPR system, enabling them to quickly search BMJ Best Practice topics and clinical information in the same way they would use the search function on the BMJ Best Practice website or app. This is just one of the ways in which BMJ Best Practice can be integrated into healthcare systems.
BMJ is also actively collaborating with key initiatives such as SMART Health IT platform and SMART on FHIR, who are actively developing the future of decision support EPR integration.
There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of integrating clinical decision support into electronic systems that healthcare professionals use. A study by Tao et al. showed that the clinical decision support systems (CDSS) integrated with BMJ Best Practice improved the accuracy of clinicians’ diagnoses. Shorter confirmed diagnosis times and hospitalisation days were also found to be associated with CDSS implementation in retrospective real-world studies.
All NHS staff and learners in England can use BMJ Best Practice for free, funded by Health Education England (HEE). BMJ and HEE would like to encourage other NHS Trusts to come forward for EPR integration by contacting support@bmj.com.
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