Overview

CIS is a new mobile information system for community nursing services, designed by a team of senior nurses and implemented using Kelvin Connect's award-winning technology. It features an advanced hand-held clinical workstation for staff working in locations where desk or Tablet PCs are unavailable, inconvenient or inefficient, together with web access to a central data repository for work scheduling, reviewing and reporting. CIS has been designed from the start as a sophisticated mobile information system, exploiting the full power of the latest hand-held computer devices, and has been in daily clinical use for over 18 months.

Benefits

• Improved legibility, accuracy and completeness of clinical information capture
• Improved communication between team members and other health providers
• Reference information at the point of care
• Time saved on scheduling and analysis
• Very detailed support for evidence-based service planning and monitoring
• Secure long-term information repository (documents in XML format)

Typical use

CIS can support District Nursing, Health Visitor, or other Community Nursing services. For example:

• District Nurse Team leaders use the system to log new patient referrals, schedule and assign tasks to team members, and generate clinical documents and reports
• District Nurses use mobile devices to capture information in partially pre-filled forms, print information at the point of care using wireless ink-free hand-held printers, share information automatically with other team members, consult reference information, log travel times etc.
• Highly detailed caseload and activity reports for service managers can be created either automatically or interactively

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