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Alex Ryan , Director , EMEA Healthcare Business Development at Hyland documentation systems can be distributed between different hospitals or practices and are vulnerable to human error .
As a result , research conducted by the Healthcare Information & Management Society and Hyland Healthcare , has found that almost two-thirds ( 65 %) of health systems lack medical images and other unstructured data patient information at the point of care . Sixty-one percent of clinical content captured on mobile devices isn ’ t integrated into the EHR ; 15 % of respondents working week was wasted searching for information unavailable in core systems .
This is where the importance of developing outpatient processes becomes clear . No matter how talented the physician is or how cooperative the patient , there is inherent risk when medical professionals make decisions without the context and information necessary to deliver the most appropriate care . In a field where the smallest detail can drastically change the course of treatment , this is intolerable .
These data points require structure , and by that , we mean infrastructure – an underlying platform that can integrate a myriad of file types and datapoints into a secure , navigable format .
Sort it out
In the absence of a centralised repository for all NHS data , which would be a monolithic task both logistically and financially , improving health system outpatient services depends upon content service platforms to act as a natural , important extension of the electronic patient record .
In combining content services with enterprise imaging , such systems can feed unstructured data into the workflow of care and administrative teams . That may be into the EHR , but also enterprise resource
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