OptoMize - Diabetic Retinopathy
Digital Healthcare is an ENSPDR
approved software supplier for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Services.
The OptoMize software product is used for managing the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
Service for 41 schemes across England and Wales currently covering 1.2 million diabetics
and is deployed in a wide range of geographical designs and scope including mobile
units, community clinics and hospital locations across varying technology bandwidths.
The OptoMize product meets in full the functional requirements of the UK National
Screening Committee workbook 4, is a solution that has a high level of user friendliness,
is a solution that provides patients with an efficient and supportive service and
allows programmes to manage and develop their service in a cost efficient and pro
active manner.
TECHNOLOGY
Digital Healthcare is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and its OptoMize product
for systematic population based healthcare screening was awarded the Microsoft Healthcare
User Group (MSHUG) award for Acute Care - Clinical/Patient Information Systems in
2006
AUTOMATED PATIENT CAREPATHWAY
OptoMize uses a unique Automated Care Pathway which minimizes administration requirements,
time and costs, reduces the chances of errors and improves patient care, providing
faster return on investment. The automated care pathway is configurable to the local
needs of a screening service. The Automated Care Pathway enables full central patient
call/recall, the automatic generation of a wide range of patient and clinical correspondence
which can be printed, sent and/or emailed to the right person at the right time
as the result of certain pre-defined and selectable electronic triggers being activated.
REPORTING
OptoMize provides a comprehensive set of reporting and analytical tools to support
the information needs of both local screening programmes and the National Screening
Programme.
The reporting facilities include, but are not limited to:
• NSC Annual Report
• Local Delivery Plan (LDP)
• Hitting the Targets Reports
Reports have drill down functionality to the individual patient records that make
up the numbers and the reports are exportable into formats such as xml, excel, PDF.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
OptoMize contains in built and automated Quality Assurance mechanisms, to ensure
a percentage (e.g.10%) of normal cases and 100% of positive cases are sent to the
QA/secondary grading queue and is enhanced further with tertiary grading queues
such as arbitration grading, for a final outcome, where differences do exist between
primary and secondary grading.
OPHTHALMOLOGY INTEGRATION
OptoMize has an integrated secondary care module for Ophthalmology grading, which
further minimizes administration, negates the need to archive off patients, reduces
the chances of errors, improves efficiency of referrals and supports patient choice.
UNIQUE CAMERA INTEGRATIONS
OptoMize uses unique direct camera integrations with the ENSPDR approved list of
cameras, negating the need and use of camera manufacturer software or folder capture
to be present. Digital Healthcare's software takes ownership of the image data as
soon as the capture button is pressed meaning that image capture works uniquely
fast, allowing the images to be reviewed and triaged whilst still connected to the
camera, further enhancing the user experience and performance. Digital Healthcare
believes it is the only company that can offer full camera integration to the ENSPDR
listed models.
DATA MIGRATION
Where required, OptoMize can be delivered with pre-populated data using Digital
Healthcare's expertise in data extraction and migration from other screening software
systems.
HL7 v 3 MESSAGING
OptoMize utilizes proven and referenced HL7 v3 ready software which is available
now. Digital Healthcare believes it is the only ENSPDR/PaSA approved supplier that
has completed, tested and deployed this technology successfully.
IMPLEMENTATION
The solution is delivered using PRINCE2™ methodology to ensure a successful
delivery of the project to time and to budget, whilst at the same time facilitating
stakeholder engagement in the project to provide effective understanding, local
participation and communication.
TRAINING
The OptoMize solution is implemented with a comprehensive training programme to
facilitate knowledge transfer. Training is delivered in a partnership approach to
ensure maximum understanding of the solution and its interaction with the operating
policies and procedures of the service and, following go live, on-going refresher
and new joiner training is provided.
OPTIONAL MODULES
A selection of optional software modules are available, each having their own benefits
for a screening service. These include:
• AutoSync Messaging - for automating the messaging of data from remote
locations
• Ophthalmic Photographic Diabetic Review - for managing certain patient
types who typically have pathology, but are not ready for treatment, and are required
to be monitored more closely in secondary care
• APRU - Automated Patient Register Update for receiving electronic
data from GPs
• GPWeb - enabling GPs to download their GP Results letters over secure
internet
• Web View - providing web review only access to images and encounter
history
For more information on OptoMize please contact:
info@digital-healthcare.com