{"id":58584,"date":"2025-08-11T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58584\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:39:09","slug":"ipswich-and-colchester-hospital-staff-train-for-digital-record-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58584\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich and Colchester hospital staff train for digital record rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hulme said the hospitals currently run on a paper-based record system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With that comes risk and it&#8217;s expensive and it&#8217;s not the most efficient way to provide healthcare,&#8221; he added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the new system, called Epic, will give medical staff access to full patient records, including test results and GP letters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients will also be able to use a new app to see their own information, appointment details and prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hulme said the new software, developed by an American firm, was &#8220;not the cheapest by any means&#8221; but was the &#8220;best in class&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said most of the funding for the project came from the government, but there would be savings gained from not having to pay for different software licences &#8211; the hospitals currently run around 50 various programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospitals also currently spend millions on stationery every year, and it&#8217;s thought those expenses would come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Hulme said the hospitals currently run on a paper-based record system. &#8220;With that comes risk and it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-58584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}