Real time data collection changes the game for the stroke patient pathway
Digital Health November 29, 2023
An integrated live stroke registry can enable clinicians to stay on the front foot across the entire patient pathway. By Richard Barrett, at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Clinicians’ ability to capture data so that it can be shared in real time is fundamental to digital transformation for the NHS. However, for many trusts, the cultural shift required for clinical buy-in to make this happen is still a work in progress. Even where it is more advanced, many health IT systems users still take a retrospective approach to data collection, with auditors gathering information from patient notes and populating the fields of the application.
But at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, where Capture Stroke has been supporting the management and...