Dedalus positioning regarding HSSIB Electronic Patient Record (EPR) safety findings
Dedalus recognises challenges highlighted in the HSSIB EPR safety findings report and has aligned its product strategy, design approach, and implementation methodology to address them. Our response outlines how ORBIS and the wider Dedalus ecosystem are designed to mitigate the risks identified.
The recent HSSIB thematic review highlights persistent patient-safety risks associated with the design, implementation, and optimisation of EPR systems across the NHS.
Many of these challenges, including usability, functionality, poor interoperability, limited user engagement, accessibility, and inconsistent governance, are well-recognised across the sector.
Dedalus fully acknowledges these issues, and much of our current roadmap, product design philosophy, and implementation methodology has been deliberately structured to address exactly these pain points.
Our summary highlights how ORBIS and the wider Dedalus ecosystem are designed to mitigate the safety risks described in the report.
Download our summary.
About the report
This report is a thematic review of investigation reports by HSSIB and its predecessor organisation – the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) – that included consideration of electronic patient record (EPR) systems. Throughout this report HSIB and HSSIB investigation reports will be collectively termed ‘HSSIB reports’.
EPR systems are software for collecting, storing and managing data about individual patients. The purpose of this report is to summarise and analyse HSSIB’s investigation findings relating to EPR systems, to identify themes arising from these investigations and to share any additional safety learning.
This report is not an investigation of EPR systems and only presents the evidence and themes as identified by previous HSSIB work. There are several areas related to EPR systems that HSSIB has not yet investigated and therefore they are not represented in this report.
This report includes technical language and its findings are intended for those responsible for procuring, configuring, integrating and optimising EPR systems in healthcare at national, regional and local levels. The findings may also be of interest to academics in digital healthcare, staff who use these systems, and patients. A glossary is provided in section 5.
Read the HSSIB review.