During pregnancy, women can be cared for by different healthcare professionals across multiple care settings within, and outside, their home region, including GP surgeries, hospitals, and community services.

The movement of women between different care settings can often lead to significant challenges, such as the risk of critical information falling through the cracks. As a result, women may feel as though they are retelling their story to every new healthcare professional they encounter, adding to stress and anxiety during an already vulnerable time.

To improve clinical safety and continuity of care within maternity services, healthcare professionals require maternity data to be easily accessible across care settings.

How BadgerNet Helps Join Up Maternity Care Across Hospital Settings

BadgerNet is a leading Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system specifically designed for maternity care. It plays a pivotal role in connecting various hospital settings, ensuring that maternity care is seamless and coordinated.

One of the standout features of BadgerNet is its offline mode. Community midwives need to be online initially to download and ensure they have the most current version of the care records. They can then access these records and document new events offline, with the information being uploaded to the system once they reconnect to a network.

This enables antenatal and postnatal appointments held in the woman’s home, or in other locations where Wi-Fi connectivity may be problematic, and even home births, to be documented contemporaneously, removing the need for paper notes, ultimately reducing administrative time, transcription errors and improving clinical safety.

In addition, our Badger Notes Patient Health Record (PHR), which has around 200,000 unique users a month, provides women direct access to their maternity record. Throughout pregnancy a woman can access the current pregnancy record, which includes notes, blood test and ultrasound reports and results, upcoming appointments, key information about their stage of pregnancy (by week of gestation) as well as information on any historic pregnancies. Women are also able to document their care plans, which are automatically added to the clinician’s view. The app promotes a woman-centred approach to care, enhancing communication and transparency. This ensures that even with many clinicians involved, they all have the necessary information at their fingertips.

How BadgerNet Joins Up Maternity Care Across Maternity Services

It is estimated that in 40% of pregnancies, women receive care from more than one maternity service, this is due to the fact that pregnant women are extremely mobile, travelling across the country like the rest of the population.

To help address this, BadgerNet’s Single Pregnancy Record (SPR), which is an opt in feature, ensures maternity data is readily available across all BadgerNet sites. This is particularly beneficial for improving clinical safety by ensuring that all healthcare providers involved in a patient’s care have real-time access to the woman’s maternity record. The primary focus of the SPR is to join up care between different BadgerNet sites, creating a network that enhances communication and coordination across maternity services. In addition to improving clinical safety, the Single Pregnancy Record also improves the woman’s experience as all her maternity information is accessible, meaning she does not have to worry about retelling her history.

BadgerNet is currently present in 100% of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and will soon manage 60% of births across the U.K.

Sharing Maternity Data with Shared Care Records

BadgerNet is the one of the first maternity suppliers to integrate with, and flow data to Shared Care Records. This integration, which is live for the Great North Care Record (GNCR) and in development for other Shared Care Records, ensures that crucial maternity data is readily accessible by General Practitioners (GPs), ambulance services, Emergency Departments (EDs). By providing a comprehensive summary of a patient’s maternity history, healthcare professionals can make informed decisions quickly, improving the overall quality of care and clinical safety.

This is particularly important in emergency situations where the woman might be unable to communicate her maternity history, or even the fact she is pregnant, to the ambulance or ED staff. This integration means clinicians can access a summary of her maternity data enabling them to make informed decisions about the woman’s treatment, reducing delays in care.

BadgerNet is revolutionising maternity care by seamlessly integrating data across various healthcare settings. Its innovative features, such as the Single Pregnancy Record and Badger N0tes, ensure that maternity care is both safe and efficient across care settings. By providing real-time access to comprehensive maternity records, BadgerNet enhances communication among healthcare providers and empowers women to take an active role in their care. Our product helps to set a new standard for maternity services, improving outcomes for mothers and their babies.

Next Steps

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