Healthcare IT systems (FOI)

Request

Please could you assist by answering the following questions

A

What is the name of the main IT Solution used within the Emergency Department setting?

‘An Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) is an extended EHR system used to manage data in support of Emergency Department patient care and operations. The functions of an EDIS may be provided by a single application or multiple applications.’

B

What is the name of the Patient Administration Systems (PAS) your Hospital Group currently has installed?

‘Patient Administration Systems (often abbreviated to PAS) developed out of the automation of administrative paperwork in healthcare organisations, particularly hospitals, and are one of the core components of a hospital's IT infrastructure.’

C

What is the name of the Main Community Solution, used for Community and District Nursing?

D

What is the name of the Clinical Noting Solution used within the Hospital Group?

‘Clinical Noting Solution is fully-auditable electronic notes platform that allows clinicians to search, analyse and annotate patient case notes.’

E

What is the name of the Hospital Group EPR Solution?

‘EPR (electronic patient record system) will mean all patient information will be available electronically, on screen, at any hospital location, at any time.

F

What is the name of the Pharmacy Stock Management Solution used within the Hospital Group?

‘Pharmacy inventory management involves the processes of ordering, receiving, and storing drugs, with the aim of ensuring drug availability while keeping costs down and working within storage capacity constraints’

G

What is the name of the In-Patient e Prescribing solution used within the Hospital?

‘E-prescribing, or electronic prescribing is a technology that allows physicians and other medical practitioners to write and send prescriptions to a participating pharmacy electronically instead of using handwritten or faxed notes or calling in prescriptions.’

H

What is the name of the Out-Patient e Prescribing solution used within the Hospital Group?

I

What is the name of the Order Communication Solution used within Hospital Group?

‘Order Communications System (OCS) allows diagnostic tests and treatment services to be ordered instantly.’

J

What is the name of the Diagnostic Reporting Solution used within the Hospital Group?

‘Electronic requesting and results reporting service, a web-based requesting and result reporting system that has been designed to operate within primary and secondary care. Usually used for Radiology, Cardiology and Laboratory reporting’ 

Response

A to J

It is considered that providing this information may cause a security risk and therefore it has been refused under Article 42 (a) (Law Enforcement) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Article applied

Article 42 Law enforcement

Information is qualified exempt information if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice –

a) the prevention, detection or investigation of crime, whether in Jersey or elsewhere

Public Interest Test

It is recognised that there is a public interest in providing information in a transparent manner, however this public interest is not considered to outweigh the interests of the government in preventing cyber-crime. It is considered that release of this information may increase risks, particularly in view of major cyber-attacks that have occurred in other jurisdictions in recent years.

The Government of Jersey continuously assesses risk to its network and technical infrastructure and manages a risk treatment plan to ensure every effort is made to maintain a secure and reliable service for its staff and users of its services.