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WardInHand
An overview of the WardInHand System
What is WardInHand?
An advanced, easy to use, secure mobile application.Support healthcare professionals in their day-to-day activities.
Allow ward staff to create, edit and display patient information.
A workflow management system (WMS). Keeps track of actions planned by ward staff.
Dispatches tasks to staff for completion.
Configurable to hospital procedures.
WardInHand Objectives
Significantly reduce inconveniences of paper handling and repeated transcriptions.
Improve Quality.Provide doctors and nurses with an advanced and easy to use IT tool.
Access/Update patient data at the place/time they need
Improve Productivity.Coordinate actions by the means of a configurable workflow engine.
Healthcare Quality
More time for direct patient care.
Quicker access to information.
Elimination of errors due to paper handling and duplication.
Increased safety level in hospitals.
Improved security of clinical information.
Better experience for patients.
Healthcare Costs
Currently 30% - 50% of working time is wasted.
Freeing this time will increase the quality of healthcare without increasing costs.
WIH aims to save up to 50% of this time wastage.
An equivalent increase to additional spending of 20% - 50%.
For the EU as a whole that is equivalent to more than 36 billion euros.
Efficiency
Patients dealt with faster.
Reduce lengths of stay in hospitals by 10%.
Reduce waiting list times for beds.
Increasing the number of patients that can be treated.
An extra 12.8 million hospital places in the EU per year.
Helping hospitals cope with growth in population without additional cost.
Architecture Summary
Patient Records Manager (PRM)
Allows Doctors and Nurses to view and edit patient information.
Information is always up to date.
Information can be linked to a Patient Administration System.
Functionality:
Ward Management
Patient Data
Vital Signs
Patient Treatments
Discharge reports
Annotations
Test Prescriptions
Diets
Screenshots: Patient’s Records
Access/Update Patient’s clinical data at bedsite.
Workflow Designer/Scheduler
DesignerAllows users to design multiple, flexible workflow processes.
Creates graphical representations of workflows.
Stores staff details, documents and algorithms related to activities.
SchedulerLinks a relevant staff member to a task.
Gives a list of tasks Staff have to perform and when.
Updates upon completion
Workflow Designer
Figure 1: The Workflow Designer Figure 2: An Example workflow
Personal Organiser (PO)
Provides ability to access worklist and workitems remotely.
Allows the user to start a new workflow.
Runs inside a web browser.
The PRM and the PO share a common interface.
A logon page and a home page where the user can activate functionalities of the PRM and PO.
A set of pages with the same friendly and familiar GUI.
Screenshots: Personal Organiser
Track actions planned by ward staff and dispatch tasks.
Security Manager
Preventing unauthorised accessSecurely transmit data between server and client.
Authentication with digital certificates.
Unauthorised devices unable to interact with the server.
Restricting AccessAllows user accounts to be created within WIH.
User accounts have a level of authority assigned to them.
Determines what operation the user may perform.
Determines what records a user can view
Legacy Integration Module
Allows WardInHand to link with Hospital Systems.
Links to almost any hospital patient information system.
Can import and export in four main formats:ODBC
XML
HL7
Text-delimited
LSIL Architecture
LSIServer Record
Tables
WIH_XMLDFMOutgoing Manager
Server
TREIServer
LSI_DFM
Browser
XML Document File Directory(XMD DFD)
WIH_XMLDFMDirectories
LS DB
WIH
PRM
XML request
XML documentation
visualisation
HTTP connection
HTTP
connection
WIH System
HL7 Converter
Generates XML from legacy systems.
Localisation
Five versions of the language dependent files exist.
One for each of the currently supported languages:English
Italian
German
Greek
Spanish
All components of the pages have been translated.
Summary
WardInHand is a hand held application for use in wards.
The main benefits of WardInHand are:QualityEfficiency
The architecture has 4 main divisions:Patient RecordsWorkflowSecurityLegacy system Integration