Sheffield Care Trust Implements Onbase for Improved EMR Access

Sheffield Care Trust, part of the UK’s National Health Service, has implemented OnBase electronic content management software to enable an electronic medical records, or EMR, system.

This is specifically designed to improve patient care and safety by making millions of medical records more readily available to clinicians and caregivers by integrating electronic document management with its existing patient administration system.

Implemented by Avanquest, OnBase is an integrated ECM software suite that encompasses application integration, document imaging, electronic document management, workflow, records management, COLD/ERM and business process automation.

Since the installation of OnBase, Sheffield Care Trust says that it is better able to manage the abundance of patient medical records and improve access to them, while at the same time complying with the need to store many medical records indefinitely. Documents are now scanned into a centralized OnBase repository, rather than being stored on microfiche or scanned by a service bureau as they were in the past.

Sheffield Care Trust’s director of IT Tom Davidson, said, “The quality of the fiche and imaging were poor, and those documents couldn’t be integrated into our current system… OnBase also makes it easier for us to provide access to documents from anywhere. Right now we are going into 2.5 million pages stored in OnBase.”

The software supports incremental enhancements and expansion, allowing organizations to add new components as needs change or funding becomes available.