EmailA spokesperson for the company told SmartHealthcare.com that the 100 strong team in the South Lakeland area will begin to use the system in August as the next phase of its implementation.
"The district nurses currently use a mixture of paper and office based PCs," the spokesperson said. "They provide general nursing and palliative care to patients in their homes. With Emis Web they will be able to use a single system, both mobile (netbook) and PC based, to streamline their work."
NHS Cumbria has been using the system in South Lakeland for a year, providing mobile clinicians such as community physiotherapists and specialist respiratory nurses with access to about 75,000 patient records from 13 GP practices. They are able to view a summary of a record with the patient's consent during home visits and input data using special templates.
Out of hours GPs and members of the trust's primary care assessment team are also accessing the system through its interoperability with the Adestra system that they use.
The spokesperson said that, while the implementation was launched as part of the Department of Health-backed Integrated Care Pilots, the trust now considers it an established part of its work.
"The PCT is taking an overview of progress and outcome, hence the pilot view, but there is no backward look to unpick what has already been achieved, and the number of in-scope services is increasing," she said.
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