Patient Results Collector

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ddimer, ctpa, ctkub, troponin ... IVOR WANTED TO KNOW HOW HIS A&E WAS PERFORMING. THAT SHOULD BE EASY. HIS A&E KEEPS PATIENT NOTES AND INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN DIGITAL FORM. electronic patient record (EDIS) results server (ICE) IVOR STARTS WITH PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE). SURE. IT DEPARTMENT CAN HELP. THEY CREATE A LIST OF ALL THE PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED PE FROM THE LAST 5 YEARS. here is a 1000 of them in a spreadsheet. IT WILL TAKE 34 HOURS OF WORK. AND MISTAKES WILL HAPPEN. BUT WAIT... THERE IS NO WAY TO COMBINE PATIENTS WITH THEIR DDIMER, CTPA, V/Q SCAN OR ULTRASOUND SCAN RESULTS??? IVOR HAS to access RESULTS SERVER (ICE), SEARCH FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL PATIENT AND EXTRACT ALL THE DESIRED DATA POINTS MANUALLY!!! Patient Results Collector open source computer software to facilitate clinical audits Ivor Kovic [email protected] calderdale & huddersfield NHs foundation trust ivan gustin [email protected] elin ltd. - pazin, croatiA IVAN STARTED TACKLING THE PROBLEM. hmm, there must be a way we can automate this. I KNOW. WE CAN USE OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES TO CREATE A COMPUTER PROGRAM. AFTER DAYS OF TIRELESS WORK EMERGED HOW DOES IT WORK? user inputs a list of unique patient numbers and dates of a&E visits + defines wanted investigation results. PRC anonymously, rapidly and reliably extracts results, merges them with data from PATIENT RECORD and presents it in a form that is ready for analysis. PATIENT RESULT COLLECTOR PRC WAS PUT TO THE TEST. And it totally rocked. #win 1 2 MAN PRC Troponin results 558 patients 9 h 15 min Ddimer levels & CTPA results 1007 patients 34 h 1 h Time of blood collection, arrival to the laboratory, and of report 5000 patients 200 h 2.5 h YOUR NEXT PROJECT WITH PRC GET IN TOUCH!

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ddimer, ctpa, ctkub, troponin ...

IVOR WANTED TO KNOW HOW HIS A&E WAS PERFORMING. THAT SHOULD BE EASY.

HIS A&E KEEPS PATIENT NOTES AND

INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN DIGITAL

FORM.

electronic patient record (EDIS)

results server (ICE)

I V O R S T A R T S W I T H PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE).

SURE. IT DEPARTMENT CAN HELP.

THEY CREATE A LIST OF ALL THE PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED PE FROM THE LAST 5 YEARS.

here is a 1000 of them in a spreadsheet.

IT WILL TAKE 34 HOURS OF WORK. AND MISTAKES WILL

HAPPEN.

BUT WAIT...

THERE IS NO WAY TO COMBINE PATIENTS WITH THEIR DDIMER, CTPA, V/Q SCAN OR U L T R A S O U N D S C A N RESULTS???

IVOR HAS to access RESULTS SERVER (ICE), SEARCH FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL PATIENT AND EXTRACT ALL THE DESIRED DATA POINTS MANUALLY!!!

Patient Results Collector open source computer software to facilitate clinical audits

Ivor [email protected]

calderdale & huddersfield NHs foundation trust

ivan [email protected]

elin ltd. - pazin, croatiA

IVAN STARTED TACKLING THE PROBLEM.

hmm, there must

be a way we can automate this.

I KNOW. WE CAN USE

OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

TO CREATE A COMPUTER PROGRAM.

AFTER DAYS OF

TIRELESS WORK

EMERGED

HOW DOES IT WORK?

user inputs a list of unique patient numbers and

dates of a&E visits + defines wanted investigation results.

PRC anonymously, rapidly and reliably extracts results, merges them with data from PATIENT RECORD and presents it in a form that is ready for analysis.

PATIENT RESULT COLLECTOR

PRC WAS PUT TO THE TEST. And it totally rocked. #win

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MAN PRCTroponin results 558 patients

9 h 15 min

Ddimer levels & CTPA results 1007 patients

34 h 1 h

Time of blood collection, arrival to the laboratory, and of report 5000 patients

200 h 2.5 h

YOUR NEXT

PROJECT WITH PRC GET IN TOUCH!