Uses OpenText IDOL and OpenText Content Manager to lead the National Health Service into a paperless future!

The challenge was to create a simple-to-use, highly configurable, clinically focused end-user application to replace paper medical records. Find a more efficient way to index and extract precise clinical data needed on a daily basis, and provide it in a mobile environment so it can be accessed at the patients’ bedsides. Finally, migrate millions of records without disrupting employees’ activities.

The UK Government set a target for the National Health Service (NHS) to go paperless by 2018 in a move that aims to save billions of pounds, improve services, and help meet the challenges of an ageing population.

A core element of going paperless is the digitization of patient records, thereby making crucial information available to health and social care practitioners at the touch of a button. At the forefront of this drive is the leader of the UK Electronic Medical Records (EMR) market, Kainos Evolve, which has offices in the UK, Ireland, Poland, the Netherlands, and the United States. Its flagship EMR product, Evolve, is now used by over 100 acute hospitals in the NHS.

Kainos Evolve decided to build Evolve on the Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) provided by two OpenText (formerly Micro Focus) products: IDOL 10.10 and Content Manager (formerly Records Manager) and HPI Process Automation. It used 30 years of information management expertise to improve efficiency, productivity and regulatory compliance.

Eliminating paper produces considerable savings with many larger hospitals spending up to two million pounds a year to create, move and store paper files. Hospitals use Evolve to develop e-forms, which are useful when a patient is being seen over a long period of time. When designing forms, they can use an Evolve community portal to access a library of existing forms that have been created by other Trusts.

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