Dorset County Hospital

Additional alerts from DCH available in the DCR

Nearly 70 alerts have been added to the Dorset Care Record this week by one of our key health partners, Dorset County Hospital (DCH). The additional alerts, which have been added to an existing feed, include allergy alert types, such as hay fever, latex, house dust, bees and wasps and adhesives, to help increase awareness among clinicians.

Other alerts that have been added include those around specific medical conditions, including possible cases of tuberculosis and previous pressure ulcer alerts, Munchausen syndrome and mental disorders, child safeguarding and social alerts, such as patient notes, armed forces information and patients who have multiple aliases.

The additional alerts mean that DCH now provides nearly 100 different alerts into the shared care record.

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Test manager Vinay Gunwant

Functionality, multiple systems and dealing with COVID-19: Our test manager’s view

Our test manager Vinay Gunwant looks at some of the functionality linked to releases in the Dorset Care Record, highlights some of the issues posed in dealing with multiple systems and charts benefits to clinicians during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

I have been part of the Dorset Care Record (DCR) for the past four months and having been involved in the Gloucestershire shared care record (JUYI) I had a fair idea of the interoperability programmes and the potential issues and pitfalls that can affect the programme.

However, each programme has new stakeholders, different systems and suppliers and I felt it was important to get to know the personalities involved with the DCR and re-adjust to working smoothly with them.

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