EPRs that are designed for clinicians vs. EPRs built for billing

ORBIS U: built from the group up to support clinical workflows

When developing an Electronic Patient Record (EPR), does it matter if developers start from the point-of-view of hospital clinicians or from the perspective of hospital administrators? With many enterprise-level computing solutions, the starting point doesn’t really matter – the end result can equally support multiple users and priorities. EPRs are different. Because the goal is to enable better patient care, by making up-to-date patient information available at all points of care and streamlining the work of physicians, EPRs need to take clinical needs as the overarching priority.

The truth is that a lot of hospital information systems are administratively and billing-focussed, rather than care-centred. When the design of the EPR is based on supporting the delivery of care, with clinical and supporting administrative workflows as the starting point, relevant data is captured at the point of care and made available in real-time to support the planning, monitoring, reporting and billing processes. This significantly increases the value of the EPR to the organisation by making it a tool that supports the real-time management of the hospital and significantly improves the user experience of the EPR.

Supporting clinical workflows

From the very beginning of the design phase for ORBIS U, the Electronic Patient Record solution from Dedalus, the requirements and needs of end users are put into the focus of product development. Our development and deployment teams comprise healthcare experts including clinicians from a range of clinical disciplines along with IT and UX experts, who start with an extensive analysis of the end user’s daily activities and the key outcomes to be delivered. The use by clinicians is at the centre of design considerations for ORBIS U.

The end result: an EPR designed for clinicians, by clinicians. With ORBIS U, you can design the processes in your clinic efficiently and comprehensively. This reduces expenses for administrative tasks, documentation, and coordination, increasing time for care and enabling a focus on delivering improvements in care delivery and outcomes.

The medical workflows in ORBIS U optimise the interaction of medical areas with the general processes in the hospital. The coordination of the needs of doctors and nursing staff results in a qualitative improvement in patient care through the comprehensive availability of information.

In particular, the integration of care into the processes with ORBIS U creates new possibilities for care, for example in care planning. This means that you are supported, both in the tasks in the very special procedures of care and in the general processes. For certain hospital areas or clinics, ORBIS U will also offer specialist departmental solutions in which subject specific processes and documentation are integrated.

ORBIS U also offers the ideal basic solution for all overarching processes in your clinic. As standard, ORBIS U provides all the functions that are required to safely complete overarching tasks. But even beyond the base, there are many specialised programs and extensions. In addition to providing comprehensive, end to end, clinical support, ORBIS U has a range of ‘Add-Ons’, that automate small tasks, evaluate data, or simply accelerate certain processes. Typically, these are forms or reports that are created with the ORBIS Composer or the medical query generator. In addition, the Composer tool provides a ‘low code’ approach to rapidly create new clinical workflow and customisations that enable organisations to rapidly develop support for new clinical practice and process in their organisation.

If you’d like to learn more about public cloud-based EPR solutions and ORBIS, Europe’s leading EPR solution, get in touch.