In England approximately 40% of all emergency admissions that go into hospitals get there via urgent and emergency referrals (NHS England 2013). These patients are often admitted with insufficient information even though they were seen by a clinician or healthcare professional on referral. With having no end to end connectivity, letters often gets misplaced or lost and clinical staff are put at professional risk.
Emergency referral is a service of the ETPIER™ Application Suite.
To enable a clinician to make an emergency referral for the patient’s with all of the essential information needed by the receiving clinician and the team. For example the presenting conditions, reason for referral, medical history, demographics, special instructions, etc. Then to make the referral information immediately available to the next point of care in the patient’s journey.