Elsevier has announced a new three-year partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK and a tertiary centre for specialist treatment, to provide a new and effective digital solution for nursing care plans. This is the only EHR-based care planning solution that combines the patient history with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and standardised assessments into one patient-centered plan. The rollout of the innovative care planning solution is set to be introduced across Leeds Teaching Hospitals later this year.
The solution allows Leeds Teaching Hospitals to deploy digital nursing care plans at scale, a task which would have taken clinical and software developers many years to complete. It will also enable greater visibility of nursing activity and help facilitate better reporting of acuity information, quality metrics, and other ward assurance data. This will allow more efficient decision-making, simplify day-to-day work and save time. In addition to this, documentation can be completed at the bedside with the patient, supporting the Trust’s Green Plan and aim for reducing carbon footprint.
The Care Planning solution will be surfaced within Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ current electronic health record PPM+ (Patient Pathway Manager), which is developed and managed in-house, so information can be accessed efficiently by all clinical colleagues across the organisation. Elsevier’s Care Planning will be imported into PPM+, eliminating hundreds of hours of configuration work and minimising the IT burden.
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