Overview

Stalis’ Patient Care System (PCS), powered by Silverlink, provides today’s most comprehensive, proven, patient centred infrastructure supporting the whole spectrum of NHS patient care.

Designed to release organisational benefits from the outset

Designed and developed in the UK specifically for the NHS, PCS is fully CfH Choose & Book, Spine and 18 week wait compliant. It enables the sharing of information between primary, secondary and social care where each may need to examine and communicate information about their patients to other carers. Data is entered once at the appropriate point of care and can then be made available to other users as required. In addition, the workflow processes are integrated and streamlined to support efficient clinical care.

The operational benefits of this approach include:

• improves integrity, security, recovery and control
• supports financial, clinical and administrative decision making

• Integrated workflows
• streamlines administration of the clinical care process
• supports the initiatives of Improving Clinical Care

PCS products today are supporting the delivery of care and patient management in eighteen NHS Trusts throughout the UK. CfH have also purchased and installed PCS to support NPfIT in the ongoing development of the national infrastructure. PCS has been at the forefront of the Choose & Book developments for Existing System Suppliers (ESPs) in the NPfIT environment, continuing to enhance and develop products in line with emerging NHS requirements and with the latest technologies. It is now certain, because of the maturity and advanced nature of PCS, coupled with the demanding and constantly developing needs of the NHS, PCS will continue to be a significant and preferred PAS/EPR solution within the NHS.

Fully integrated information at your fingertips

All PCS applications are fully integrated, both from a data and a workflow perspective. The underlying design philosophy is that information is entered once only at the appropriate point in the care pathway. The system architecture then allows this information to be made available in any other module, without the need for complex and expensive interfacing.

A few examples of the benefits of this integrated functionality are given below:-

• The Bed Management module provides an electronic visualisation of the “ward white board” to provide comprehensive and focussed details of a patient’s stay alongside all of the key features of an electronic patient record.
• The Theatres module integrates with waiting lists, inpatient and outpatient activity and bed usage forecasts to manage a patient’s forthcoming encounter with the Trust effectively.
• The Patient Activity Summary displays all known patient activity enabling rapid clinical and administrative decisions based on the patient’s encounters with the Trust from birth to date, including associated letters and other documents.
• The Clinical Information module allows clinicians to see at a glance all of their current inpatients and scheduled outpatients due today. For any patient, the clinician can, at a touch of a button access their clinical documentation, orders and results, previous activity, theatre activity and clinical protocol sets. Integrated voice recognition is now available – an example of the continuous improvements in user function related to improving care delivery
• The GP Access module allows GPs to access information concerning their own patients and, if authorised, make test requests and view results online, if required.
• Comprehensive Referral Management is integral to the core system, incorporating Outpatient and Inpatient visit management at multiple treatment sites within a single episode of care.
• Shared patient/client care across the health and social care arenas is fully supported, providing a single reference point for monitoring care delivery and assessment, particularly important for the very young and elderly who may be moving frequently between and through the different layers of shared care.

Designed by NHS people for NHS people

PCS has been designed with a common look and feel across all modules, making it easy to use and, being designed from the outset to be fully supportive of NHS workflow processes, highly intuitive. Staff trained in one aspect of its operation can quite quickly move to another module and start to work very effectively from a very early stage.

In addition:

• It has a modern “Windows” environment with “Web” options including some “mobile” extensions for laboratory and radiology results reporting.
• Designed as a multi-provider system, PCS is well established serving 18 Acute, Primary Care and Mental Health Trusts, across some 40 sites. Each of these Trusts uses the software in different ways to meet their local requirements using the inbuilt flexibility and configuration of the modules.
• PCS is very competitively priced so a Trust can deliver a cost-effective patient focussed service. The licence charges include all the latest DSCN upgrades and other CfH product enhancement requirements.
• It offers an industry standard ORACLE database, enabling local management reporting. This gives extremely robust and reliable performance with almost non-existent down times.
• The open nature of ORACLE allows Trusts to attach CareXML® or their own reporting tools to the database to carry out information analysis. This can facilitate very sophisticated reporting and real-time presentations for the Trust management teams, again leading to significant operational and financial efficiencies.
• PCS has a well defined forward development path incorporating features required by CfH (e.g. SNOMED support, ongoing compliance with NPfIT functionality alongside ‘User Group’ requested changes). The high reliability and accuracy of the system reduces maintenance to a minimum and allows technical resources to be focussed on ongoing development.