EDMS or the Electronic Document Management System is used to create a fully electronic version of your patient record by replacing the paper version with a scanned digital image of the original document, which can be accessed from anywhere across the hospital network at any time. This will only be viewable by authorised staff within the Trust who have been given the rights to view this as part of your care delivery.
Liverpool Women's will be going live with the new Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) from Wednesday 19th November 2014. The system will be implemented using a phased approach department-by-department. Any Oncology patient that has an appointment on or after this date will have an electronic medical record. The next department to use the EDMS will be Clinical Genetics and they are scheduled to use this from January 15th 2015. To find out how the EDMS will affect you, we’ve put together the information below...