It is contingent upon approval of the contract in the current contract as well as NHS England approval of a complete business plan. The contract’s value isn’t yet established.
If it’s introduced within over the course of two years., new EPR could be able to replace up to twenty platforms major, including those based on paper. The same Epic EPR is already in use by the neighboring Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Torbay and South Devon provides a mixture of adult social care, as well as acute and community-based services across Dartmoor along with Torbay as well as located in areas in the South Devon areas around Totnes and Dartmouth with more than 15 sites and in the homes of those.
The trust was established in 2015 through the merger between South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust.
Director and vice-chairman of transformation and partnerships, Adel Jones Adel Jones vice-chief executive director and vice-chairman of partnerships and transformation Adel Jones, deputy chief executive and director of transformation and partnerships, said “Our new EPR is the cornerstone of our Trust strategy and will help us to improve how we securely and efficiently share information across NHS organisations, including with primary care and mental health services.”
CCIO Dr Michael Green added: “As part of the introduction of the innovative system, we’ll be reviewing the entire process of care to ensure that we’re an organization that is digital and makes use of the latest technology that is available to us. From a medical perspective we are extremely enthusiastic about the opportunities EPR could offer.”
Chief Nursing Informatics Chrissy Dixon further said: “Our new EPR will enable us to connect data across our many sites and services, no matter whether they’re located in the community or an the acute care facility. Patients are also able to maintain track of medical appointments, the results of tests and follow-ups in one place.”
Epic Executive Leslie Selby said: “In addition to the single joined-up record of care, the trust will be able to offer convenient mobile access for patients and clinicians as well as secure data exchange with other organisations and services across the region.”
A inadequate IT infrastructure was highlighted as a problem in the trust’s latest report on June 20, 2023. Care Quality Commission report on the trust. The report noted it was “The IT infrastructure was outdated and provided barriers to sharing information and impacted on the confidence in the quality of data when pulling from lots of sources.”
The trust was declared an important incident in the wake of an crucial IT glitch in the year 2019.
Epic is currently in use for English NHS trusts such as Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.