OUH leads the way in Digitisation
Odense University Hospital has installed their electronic patient records. Director Peder Jest
gives you an insight into one of the most digital hospitals in the world, where they now are about to gain millions of Danish kroner from streamlined working procedures.
One of the cornerstones of OUH's digitisation is the electronic patient records system (EPR),called COSMIC, which has been delivered by Logica.
- “EPR provides you with coherent and safe continuity of care - especially across departments - because all your data is collected in one place and is accessible by our staff from anywhere at any time,” Peder Jest explains. As a director at OUH, he has been responsible for the implementation of COSMIC during the recent years. A job which has been a daily strategic management task for the board of directors.
- “We have gained all the advantages and opportunities from EPR. Now we need to digitise the remaining working procedures, so that there are, for example, no longer doctors who continue to print, take notes by hand and pass them on to a medical secretary who then enters them into the EPR. The digitisation project should give us an efficiency improvement return of 12 million Danish kroner,” says Peder, and adds: - “We could have 'sold' the
project in a better way at an earlier stage, by offering departments the option to keep half of the money for each secretary position that they saved when they use EPR. It is more difficult to say it afterwards.”
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