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Benefits work nets Dorset Care Record a place in the final of national awards competiton

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Delivery of efficiency savings along with benefits in patient experience, care and safety has led the Dorset Care Record to be shortlisted for a national award. The shared care record is through to the Health Tech Efficiency Savings of the Year award.

Benefits found include the delivery of just over £2m in efficiency savings to its health and social care partners in 2021-2, with efficiency savings increasing over time as more data was added, making it easier for users to find information without logging into other systems or making enquiries. Continue reading “Benefits work nets Dorset Care Record a place in the final of national awards competiton” →

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Further DCR Autumn Training Sessions as we approach 5,000 trained users

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Our training manager Laura Bonner is organising a series of facilitated webinars for staff over the next couple of months.

The training sessions come at a time when there is growing interest in our Shared Care Record. Latest figures show that nearly 5,000 health and social care professionals have completed our mandatory training around information sharing and security. Continue reading “Further DCR Autumn Training Sessions as we approach 5,000 trained users” →

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Feedback from our mandatory training module on information sharing and security

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We are nearing our target of having 5,000 trained users across our health and social care partners completing our mandatory training module on information sharing and security by the end of the year.

At present, we are just 400 short of the target and more sessions are planned for August (see below) Continue reading “Feedback from our mandatory training module on information sharing and security” →

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Inactive User Survey launched – Why people may not be using the DCR

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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” →

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Dorset Care Record – Stakeholder Update: April 2022

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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” →

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Patient portal myDCR goes live

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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

 

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Benefits baseline established for the Dorset Care Record

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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” →

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Dorset Care Record Downtime

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The Dorset Care Record will be unavailable from 20:00 until midnight on Thursday 10th February for essential maintenance.

Please note the feeds of information into DCR are being paused from 17:00 on Thursday 10th February until 09:00 Friday 11th February, therefore no updates to the records in DCR will be carried out during that time.