Digital Healthcare and Medisoft “Close the Loop” with Ophthalmology
Digital Healthcare, the leading supplier of software to UK Diabetic Retinal Screening Services (DRSS) and Medisoft, the leading supplier of software to UK Hospital Eye Services (HES), today announce that they are working in collaboration to develop “Medisoft Connector” a software module that will allow the two-way transfer of patient and outcome data between their respective systems.
Diabetic retinal screening programmes, through regularly screening diabetic patients, are successfully helping save sight loss by early identification of sight threatening disease and referring patients to Hospital Eye Services for treatment. Until now, one of the frustrations for both the screening programme and the hospital eye service is the lack of integration between their information technology systems leading to the duplication of patient data and the implementation of labour-intensive manual systems to record information and transfer outcomes data between their systems.
The development of Medisoft Connector will see an end to that duplication, manual administrative overhead and potential clinical risk by automating the transfer of appropriate and relevant information between Digital Healthcare’s OptoMize system for DRSS and Medisoft Ophthalmology in a secure and safe manner.
Kevin McDonnell, Managing Director at Digital Healthcare commented “This new development initiative is a major step forward in the drive to provide better communication between DRSS and Ophthalmology. We are delighted to be working with Medisoft to bring this product to our customers that will help them improve their efficiency, and manage risk by automating manual processes.”
David Johnston, Managing Director at Medisoft commented "An interface between the clinical and administrative systems provided by Digital Healthcare for DRSS and by Medisoft for HES will help to ensure joined-up care of patients in the community and in the hospital. The screening programmes will benefit from having a complete record for any patients they refer to the hospital. Care of patients in the hospital will be enhanced as clinicians will see the full record of the patient’s care."
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