Labelling system for Informing Healthcare
As part of its drive towards increased IT systems integration and
better data quality, Welsh Assembly Government agency Informing
Healthcare has signed a framework agreement for the provision of
LabelTrace, a patient demographic labelling system developed by
QuickTrace Ltd, to all general practices across Wales.
The system will initially be used to replace handwriting on request
forms and specimen tubes with labels containing clearly printed and
barcoded patient demographic information, supplied directly from the
clinical system.
Results from two pilot trials carried out last year suggest that
LabelTrace will offer significant time savings to both practices and
laboratories when handling specimen requests. The quality of data,
moreover, has been dramatically improved resulting in fewer instances of
creation of duplicate patient records at the laboratories.
LabelTrace was chosen because it was the only labelling solution that
could print an identical label, irrespective of which of 12 clinical
systems it came from. It also offered a proven solution that was already
in use in almost every practice in Scotland and Northern Ireland, as
well as a number of practices in England.
Graham Fenton of Codegate, the suppliers of LabelTrace for England
and Wales, said the adoption of LabelTrace would help facilitate
agreement on a standard label design for use throughout Wales. “This
will offer long-lasting improvements in data quality and in the speed
and efficiency of processing sample requests across 500 practices and 12
pathology departments, spread across 22 local health boards”, he said.
Codegate is headquartered in Oxfordshire, and QuickTrace in
Edinburgh.
Source: bjhc&im April 2007
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