Dorset County Hospital uses HSS Communicator to improve communication
Solution enhances communication between radiology and other departments
The radiology department at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed Healthcare Software Solutions’ Communicator Module within CRIS.
Healthcare Software Solutions (HSS), part of the Wellbeing Software Group, supplies CRIS, the UK’s most-widely-used radiology information system. Its Communicator module speeds up communication between radiology and other departments, thus enabling more-rapid and effective communication with referrers. This ensures patients with ‘critical findings’ can be seen more quickly, enhancing the probability of a positive outcome.
Communicator improves reliability and accuracy and allows the trust to meet the requirements of the NPSA’s 16 safer practice standards, supporting the ‘early identification of failure to act on radiological imaging reports’.
Ian Rowe. radiology IT systems manager at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Communicator fulfils a need that we had identified. We are really pleased with it and it is a very good product. It means that anyone who refers to us can be notified of urgent findings immediately.”