Essay 1:2 – The History of the University Hospital Clinical Data Estate from the 1980s to 2001

Principia Medicinae Digitalis Sotoniensis
Essays on the Evolution of the UHS Clinical Data Estate 1980 -2024

David Anthony Rew MA MChir FRCS
Consultant General Surgeon and Member of the Digital Innovation Team
University Hospital Southampton and The University of Southampton

6th October 2024

Publication Plan 

The essays which comprise this series will be made available in the first instance on my professional website, https://www.wessexsurgical.co.uk as downloadable PDF documents
for review, comment and as a basis for further contributions. They will be amended, updated and supplementary as necessary and as any new material becomes available. All those colleagues with knowledge and experience of the UHS digital programme are
welcome to contribute, by communication with me through david.rew@wessexsurgical.co.uk.
Once the project is as complete as is achievable, final copies of each of the essays will be submitted to the University of Southampton ePrint server for formal publication.

Copyright
The copyright of this collection is invested in Mr David Anthony Rew as the originator of the project, editor, principal author and compiler of the collection of essays. The content of each essay is made available on a Creative Commons Version 2 CC BY basis, under which Licensees may only copy, distribute, display, perform and make derivative works and remixes based on it on the basis of Full Attribution, including formal Citation where appropriate in books and academic publications. Full acknowledgement is given to all contributors to the written work
at appropriate points in the text.

Section 1.
The History of the University Hospital Southampton Clinical Digital Estate 1980 to 2024

Essay 1.1. A Brief History of The digital transformation of Healthcare in the 20th Century

Essay 1.2. The Evolution of the Southampton Clinical Digital Estate 1990-2000

Essay 1.3. The Evolution of the Southampton Clinical Digital Estate 2000-2009

Essay 1.4. eDocs and eQuest: The Building Blocks of the Southampton Electronic Patient
Record, 1997 - 2009

Essay 1:5: The (Perfect) Electronic Medical Record

Essay 1:6: The Evolution of the Southampton Clinical Digital Estate 2010 – Present

Essay 1:7: The Oracle APEX story by Dave Waghorn

Essay 1:8: Document Classification and Clinical Information Capture

Essay 1:9: Electronic Document Management Systems and the OnBase story

Contents

Introduction to Essay 2

Liz Horkin, the first Director of Information Management at UHS, sets the scene.

Early Discovery and System Development Concepts at Southampton General Hospital

The HL7 Interface Engine
Developments in Southampton after 1990.

The Crescendo Nurse Management System

“You can’t collect clinical information anywhere but in clinical space”

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library.

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