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Glossary
If you are unsure of the differences between Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Patient Record, you are not alone. System C have devised a glossary which we feel will help the users of our site understand the meanings of the terms used on our site.
Please browse through the glossary below to find what you are looking for.
- Clinical Information Systems
System C has built up Clinical Information
Systems expertise in nearly every area of healthcare IT.
System C works right across the healthcare sector
in primary care, secondary care, mental health and social care and
with all types of Clinical Information Systems and patient-based
Clinical Information Systems.
- Connecting for Health
Connecting for Health is a government NHS agency that
System C provides experienced healthcare IT
deployment specialists to.
The Connecting for Health agency help the NHS to deliver better
and safer care to patients, through the use of computer systems and
services.
Data Migration is the term used to describe the process of
transferring data between storage types, formats or IT systems.
Data Migration is needed in organisations when an organisation decides to use a new computing system or database management system and the data on the old system needs to be moved onto the new system.
- Electronic Medical Record
An Electronic Medical Record or ERM is described as a medical record that is stored in digital format.
An electronic patient record or EPR is a record of personal
patient information that is stored in a digital format.
- Healthcare Systems
A Healthcare System can be described as a computer system that is designed specifically for a healthcare environment.
- Medway
System C has designed their own Patient Administration System (PAS) and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system know as MedWay.
MedWay is now used by a number of healthcare organisations and
provides support for the majority of clinical and administrative
users through a single integrated product.
NHS IT is what is says, IT systems within the NHS. System C is helping to improve patient care with the implementation of better NHS IT systems.
NPfIT, or National Programme for I.T as it is often known is the NHS project that is being delivered by the Government agency Connecting for Health. It is a major project to computerise the English NHS and ultimately improve patient care.
The Patient Administration System created by System C is the brains of a healthcare organisation's software system and supports care pathway registrations, such as patient master data, referral, admission, discharge, birth registration etc.
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System C's experienced healthcare specialists have an average of 15 years experience in healthcare.