Essay 1:3 – The maturation of the Southampton Clinical Digital Systems 2001-2009

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.

Essay 1:3 Contents

Introduction to Essay 1:3.
Digital Healthcare in the first decade of the 21st Century
The Southampton University Hospital Trust’s Digital Strategy for the Early 21st Century
Early Planning for a Southampton Trust-wide Electronic Patient Record
The Early Development of the Southampton EPR
Guiding Principles for the Southampton EPR
The Components of the Southampton EPR
Liz Horkin and the Implementation of the 2001 Strategic Plan for IT in Southampton
The state of progress towards an EPR at UHS in 2001
The role of the UHS 2001 Strategy for IT in supporting clinical care.
The Impact of the NPfIT Programme upon the Southampton IT Programme
The Management of Increasing Administrative Complexity in the UHS Clinical Data Estate
The Medical Records Strategy: Paper or Electronic?

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