Maternity e-docs from Dorset County Hospital have successfully gone live into the Dorset Care Record.
Around 1,500 documents from DCH are going into the system with the acute becoming the first partner in the county to undertake this move.
The e-docs can be viewed in a section in the DCR CDV tree.
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An inactive user survey is being circulated to find out why people no longer use the Dorset Care Record. The DCR is being used by nearly 4,000 health and social care professionals. Most are using Single Sign On click throughs from their Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system to get into the DCR at the touch of a button.
From a recent survey in February 2022 with active users, we learnt that approx. 95% of users saved time, and were able to improve the care they give by using our shared care record. Continue reading “Inactive User Survey launched – Why people may not be using the DCR”
Welcome to our latest stakeholder update about progress of the Dorset Care Record and our new patient portal, myDCR. This has gone out to our top 30 stakeholders and provides a snapshot of some our work over the past 6 months:
Growing the Dorset Care Record
More than 76,000 patient records were viewed by health and social care professionals in March, making it the busiest month ever for our shared care record. The figure was nearly 14% per cent higher than in February and meant there were 2,400 records being accessed every day. The number of active users also rose, highlighting the success of our online training around information sharing and security. Nearly 4,000 staff have now completed this training. Continue reading “Dorset Care Record – Stakeholder Update: April 2022”
Our patient portal myDCR successfully went live at the weekend, marking a major development of our care record.
Users will notice a new button entitled myDCR across the subject matter section of the Dorset Care Record. We will begin adding patient records through a range of pilots over the next few weeks.
Unless you are involved in the pilots we would ask you not to use the myDCR button for the time being.
If you are interested in being involved in a pilot site please speak to our myDCR project manager Jodie Crowfoot – Jodie.crowfoot@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
Research suggests that the Dorset Care Record (DCR) has enabled efficiency savings of more than £1.4m in the first nine months of the 2021/2 financial year.
As more feeds came into the DCR and usage grew, time savings rose from £333,109 in the first quarter of the year to £586,675 in quarter three, according to the analysis.
It is projected that a total of just under £2m will be saved during the financial year from time savings and consumables, based upon the end of December DCR unique user figures. Continue reading “Benefits baseline established for the Dorset Care Record”
Many people often ask us what feeds are currently in the Dorset Care Record. This table reflects some of the major initial feeds available.
Our training manager Laura Bonner is launching in January a new way to book on our mandatory facilitated training webinar on information sharing and security.
Rather than emailing the DCR training mailbox, staff can now book themselves directly onto the Teams webinar. And if staff find themselves unable to attend the booked session, they can unbook or simply book themselves on another date.
Laura said: “Hopefully, this new streamlined process will be smoother for everyone.”
You can book from the links below
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The Dorset Care Record Production environment will be unavailable from Saturday 25th September at 13:00 for any upgrade of the system. We are expecting the system to be available by 09:00 Sunday 26th September.
From 17:00 Friday 24th September until 09:00 Monday 27th September for the feeds into the DCR will be paused, therefore no updates to any records will occur during this time.
All of Dorset GPs are being given click through access to the Dorset Care Record (DCR) thanks to an emerging form of business process automation technology based on software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence (AI) workers.
The process – known as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – has been created by IT specialists at Dorset CCG using a solution from global leader in intelligence automation Blue Prism. Continue reading “Robots assisting the Dorset Care Record”
Users can expect some down-time later this month. Orion Health will be upgrading to the latest patient health records on Saturday 25 September.
At the same time, essential maintenance will be carried for the CentOS servers to ensure our feeds remain strong and stable. We will update with further information and timescales when available.
DCR System Admin