DMF Systems
INTRODUCTION TO DMF
&
ELECTRONIC DISCHARGE SUMMARIES
2010
Background
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In our 12th Year in business (founded in 1998).
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Self funded and profitable.
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Focussed on Irish & UK Healthcare Market
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Leading provider of Integration Services to Irish Public
and Private Hospitals.
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Over 35 individual solutions, “live” in 55+ Irish hospitals
including all major HSE Hospitals and DATH’s.
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Management Team have on average 25+ years local
and international experience in Healthcare.
What we do
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 We Deliver Cost-effective Health Information
Systems for:
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Pathology Communications
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Clinical Systems
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Allied Health Information System
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Hospital Administration Systems
 Implementation Services
 Support & maintenance
 Application software development
 Design new or enhance existing infrastructure
 Professional Project Management for fast & proven
result
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Our Clients
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Tallaght Hospital
Cork & Tralee
National Virus Reference Laboratory
Coombe Women’s Hospital
South Infirmary/ Victoria
Fully Integrated Suite
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We supply fully functional solutions for:
•Patient Administration
•Allied Health Professionals
•Clinical Information Management
•Integration & Messaging
Pathology Communication
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1. Lab Results Reporting (.NET)
2. Lab to Lab Communication (LIS to LIS)
3. Lab Order Communications
4. Result integration (HL7)
5. Sample Archiving (GMP Validated)
6. Sample Tracking (GMP Validated)
7. OpenLIS (Data store for Legacy lab systems)
8. LIS View (Enquiry & Reports from OpenLIS)
9. HL7 link to HealthLinks for GP’s
Open Architecture
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Integrated Scheduling
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Patient appointments
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Equipment
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DNA management
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Outcome & Care Planning
Integrated Imaging
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Diagnostic Imaging
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Document Imaging
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Management Reports
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HSE and HIPE Reports
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PAS (McKesson, Isoft Clinicom & IPM)
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Statistics reports
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LAB (ISOFT, Clinisys, MasterLAB, Sunquest, Netaquire,
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Ad Hoc/Standard reports
Beaumont)
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Survival Analysis
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H2HCare, EDM, HealthOne, Helix Practice Manager, Socrates
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Excel import and export
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RIS/PACS (GE, Siemens & IMS)
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Patient letters & Summaries
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Pharmacy (Ascribe)
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A&E (IMS Maxims & Ascribe)
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Billing (DMF)
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InterSystems Ensemble
Why Discharge Summaries?
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 Quality and Timely
communication on discharge
means:
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Continuity of care improvements
Ensures better health outcomes
Joined up Healthcare delivery
Reduces re-admission rates
Optimal use of scarce hospital
resources
Better use of community resources
 And it’s only possible if:
 Accurate and complete information is
gathered
 Accessible to all of the relevant
hospital medical staff
 Delivered to Physicians' in a timely
and efficient manner.
It needs to be electronic ?
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 The Original is handwritten and
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often illegible
Errors and omissions
Can take days or even weeks before
it’s ready to be sent
Not delivered or too late getting to
the Physicians to be of any use
Incomplete or incorrect coding i.e.
inaccurate costing
Labour intensive i.e. speeding up
requires more secretaries
Can only be viewed by one person
at a time, Patient’s chart can be
difficult to find or unavailable
Not available to other Hospital
departments if patient re-admitted
A Fresh Approach
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Accurate - Clinical notes gathered at point of care
Complete
- All Diagnoses, Treatments, Meds + Codes
On Time
- Delivered electronically to Physicians in the Community
Workflow Schema
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Web eDS – Technical Architecture
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Web EDS
PAS System
HL7.2
Import and
Verification
DMF
Integration
Engine
•Patient Episodes
•Discharge Summaies
Select Patient by Consultant/Ward
List or Create New Episodes
Microsoft IIS
for Web Access
GP Extract
HL7.2
GP Messaging
Record Diagnoses & Treatments (with ICD10 codes)
Save, Print or Approve New Summary
Hospital
Formulary/
Drug List
Email
GP Practice
Management
System
Benefits of Electronic Discharge Summaries
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Accurate
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Electronic data input and drop down menus guarantee legibility
Hot Lists by Specialty improves input time and accuracy
Pharmacist can approve and dispense Take out medications
Consultants can approve or edit discharge letters post discharge
Complete
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Mandatory Fields ensure completeness
Accessibility to multiple staff spreads the workload
Includes all ICD10 (or ICD9) codes for diagnoses, procedures etc.
Pharmacy can review, update and correct meds from Hospital Drug List
Handover between medical staff at shift change safer.
On Time
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Completed over the duration of stay so ready to go at discharge.
Can be delivered instantaneously to the patients Physician.
Correct Coding means costing available to Accounts
Trust-wide access to historical records for re-admitted patients
Contact Us
If you are interested in finding out more about DMF Systems or
would like to book an online or in person demonstration please
contact us using any of these:
email: sales@dmfsystems.co.uk
Call us now on: 0161 4084412
And start building a closer relationship with your
clinicians from today with Web eDS.