Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust partners with Mizaic to transform frontline care

HDFT has opted to implement MediViewer, our secure and intuitive electronic document management system (EDMS), in a move that will see the Trust digitise 140,000 paper records – roughly 50 million images – and consolidate clinical information from across 25 different legacy systems. Here, we explore what the partnership means for those on the frontline of care, as we continue in our mission to facilitate faster and thoroughly informed decisions. 

The bigger picture: from paperless to purposeful

The partnership aligns with HDFT’s recently signed nine-year contract with Nervecentre Software to implement an electronic paper record (EPR). Through Nervecentre’s MediViewer module, clinicians will gain faster, more secure access to patient information within a familiar, integrated environment. The project will enable access to a complete, unified view of a patient’s health journey. With MediViewer embedded into the EPR environment, further benefits to the Trust include improved clinical decision making at the point of care, streamlined workflows and operational efficiency, and significant cost reductions where physical storage and retrieval are concerned. 

But we’re keen to support HDFT to go beyond simply ‘paperless’. While a technical goal of going paperless lays crucial foundations, the overarching digitisation narrative must now focus on this data retrieval becoming genuinely purposeful. Mizaic’s work is in supporting Trusts to store data electronically and, more importantly, in enabling intelligent access, whereby relevant information is surfaced quickly and accurately at the point of care. We need to ensure existing data works harder and smarter to support clinical decision making. 

Jon Pickering, our CEO, recently explained more:

"This partnership is about much more than going paperless - it's about unlocking the value from the data contained within important patient documents, enabling clinicians to work more efficiently and make better-informed decisions at the point of care. Harrogate is laying the foundations for a truly modern, data-driven healthcare environment."

 Supporting the NHS’s digitisation drive

Harrogate joins a growing number of NHS organisations across the UK that trust Mizaic to support their digital transformation objectives. The partnership shows what can be achieved when progressive healthcare organisations embrace digital innovation to empower clinician capabilities, improve patient outcomes, and, ultimately, strengthen our healthcare system. 

"We knew that to realise the full benefits of our new Nervecentre EPR, we needed an EDMS that could work hand in hand with it. Mizaic’s solution will make scanning and managing patient records much simpler, helping our clinical team access information more efficiently and drive cost efficiencies over the long term."

- Dr. Jacqueline Andrews, Medical Director and Executive Lead for Digital, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Keen to empower healthcare professionals and make data work even harder for your Trust? Talk to us about the value MediViewer can bring. Alternatively, explore our case studies to see the results for yourself.