A Radical Solution to the Visualization and Interaction with Timeline Structured Information: UHS Lifelines Electronic Patient Record Interface

Register for this free teams webinar here: https://futurebloodtesting.org/events/2024-05-03 Abstract: The ambitious NHS Digital Transformation Programme faces challenges in delivering efficient and intuitive information to health professionals. Since 2009, we have worked as a small team at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) Clinical Data Estate. Using e-data visualisation principles and a highly agile and iterative approach with minimal financial resources, we have developed a transformative approach to the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) interface. On UHS Lifelines, the timeframe is continuously incremental as new content accumulates. The interface opens near instantaneously in real time and documents from any time point are immediately accessible without scrolling through lists, menus, multiple frames and software subsystems, and the clinical history can be read subliminally to a valuable degree from the icon patterns. Despite initial constraints, the system evolved into a powerful application at the heart of UHS EPR. Additionally, it led to other software solutions, such as the SCR+ (Somerset Cancer Registry Enhanced) Multi-Disciplinary Team Module for cancer data management. We believe our approach has broad applicability beyond healthcare, potentially benefiting various sectors. We therefore appreciate all opportunities for collaboration to expand the project’s impact nationally and beyond. Bio: Mr David Rew is a Consultant General Surgeon in Southampton, Honorary Surgeon to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Southampton and Visiting Professor in Clinical Informatics to Southampton Solent University. He served as the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology from 2003 to 2009. Since 2009, he has held the position of global Subject Chair for Medicine on the SCOPUS Content Selection Advisory Board, where he has appraised approximately 3,500 clinical journals. Mr Rew claims no specialist knowledge in haematology, blood testing or genomics, beyond being up to date with his Statutory and Mandatory blood transfusion module in the hospital virtual learning environment. ​For the past 15 years, David Rew has been the concept lead of a productive software development team at University Hospital Southampton, creating radical solutions to the electronic patient record, a whole-of-life breast cancer data set of more than 20,000 records, and a tool for the greater efficiency of cancer multidisciplinary teams, all of which systems sit at the heart of the unique University Hospital Southampton Clinical Data Estate. This webinar is part of the Future Blood Testing Network+ Webinar Series. This series will feature a diverse range of speakers who are working in the areas of future blood testing and diagnostics.