TrakCare focuses on the most vital success factors to quickly boost the efficacy and efficiency of care. With the FastTrak to EPR approach you enjoy success quickly, rather then struggling for years to get there. TrakCare delivers speed-to-benefits while uniquely bringing freedom of choice and future-proofing to HIS. It enables legacy and other vendors’ systems to easily plug into the TrakCare environment, and conforms to current and future healthcare standards and technologies.

Immediate success builds more success
All healthcare professionals agree on the desired destination – better care through EPR. The challenge has been the journey. Speed-to-care is key to success. It drives user adoption and system support across the executive and political spectrum. As traditional projects extend over the course of a year and even over multiple years, enthusiasm wanes, support erodes, and the resulting system is likely to be cut back or cancelled. Reductions in scope become a recipe for disaster, as failure to complete an EPR solution means that there may be minimal improvements in care, which further erodes support.

The TrakCare “start with the EPR” approach solves this longstanding journey problem. A rapid and successful TrakCare EPR implementation drives improved user adoption and growing system support across the institution. And quick results yield savings that pay for continued system expansion.

Success – what you want, the way you want it
User adoption is crucial to success as traditional systems often are under utilised or even abandoned.
Three key elements drive EPR user adoption:

• Deliver success quickly
• Provide what healthcare professionals need
• Work the way healthcare professionals work

TrakCare delivers on all of these crucial-to-adoption factors.

At the Royal Infirmary, the new TrakCare patient information system was up and running in less than six months from the contract being signed between NHS Lothian and TrakHealth. The solution provides staff with fingertip access to patient information from all locations.

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was the first of four acute hospitals to implement the TrakCare solution in the Lothian region of Scotland. TrakCare enables a core patient record for all inpatient, outpatient, and accident and emergency (A&E) department episodes of care, as well as supports all waiting list activity. The system exchanges information with the existing local and national applications, including the Scottish Community Health Index (CHI) for national health numbering and the Scottish Care Information (SCI) store for care summary information. “We are delighted that the first phase was complete and running in such a short time frame,” commented Dr. Derek Bell, Associate Medical Director at NHS Lothian’s University Hospitals Division. “It was a reflection of the commitment and dedication of both the NHS Lothian and TrakHealth teams, working together to make it happen.”

The implementation of TrakCare helps NHS Lothian achieve major benefits, including improved communication of patient information across the whole community, and gives clinicians more time to spend directly with their patients. Subsequent project phases implement the TrakCare Radiology Management and Order Communications modules, and integrate this software with a new PACS (digital storage and retrieval of x-ray images) solution. With on-line access to comprehensive diagnostic information the whole organisation benefits from improved efficiencies including a reduction in the number of repeat radiology examinations and laboratory tests.

Derek Bells adds, “Over a million patient records were transferred to the new TrakCare system from both the previous Patient Administration and A&E systems. As these systems were operated independently from each other there was unnecessary duplication of data entry during the patient care process. TrakCare avoids such overheads by providing all or part of the patient record to clinicians whenever and wherever needed, supporting high-quality patient care through fast access to patient information.”