Patient Record Integration

Patients can use the system entirely unaided by simply entering their date of birth and gender using the attached touch screen. Once identified the patient can be prompted to answer selected lifestyle questions and are then guided through the measurement process. At the end of the process the patient can see their results displayed on screen and are also given a printout.

The measurements and responses to lifestyle questions are SNOMED coded and posted away to a buffer file awaiting peer review. Once reviewed the information is then accepted individually, by batch or deleted. Accepted results are then filed straight to the patient record in EMIS, SystmOne or VISION.

Free text warnings can be input by each surgery to be displayed to a patient at the end of the measurement process depending on the result of their BP and BMI.

Surgeries can also set up their own alerts system, typically on reception PCs. Then, if a patient’s BP or BMI is above or below user defined thresholds an alarm is sounded in real time on the reception PC to alert the surgery that someone has exceeded these thresholds.

At the end of the measurement process the results are displayed on screen along with a QR code. Patients can scan the QR code and are then taken to a web page that displays their results along with some predefined links to other sites such as the NHS and the British Heart Foundation. Surgeries can also add links to local resources such as stop smoking clinics and weight management which are also displayed.