SCI-Diabetes Features & Benefits

SCI-Diabetes Delivers The Following Features And Key Benefits:

• A single shared electronic record
  • Available regardless of geographical boundaries and patient location
• Cross boundary support
  • Patients record available to all providing treatment
• Real time data entry
  • Data entered will be available immediately
  • Can be used to determine cost of treatment
  • Shows strategic department usage for service audit
• Full patient contact record and record of care
  • Can be used to determine cost of contact
• Reduced Health Board cost to support service
  • No clinical system to host or technically support
  • Training of Clinical staff easier and more cost effective with a single system
  • Less duplication
  • Greater confidence in data being held
  • Facility to flag erroneous data
  • Reduction of potential data transcription errors through reduced interface requirements
• Greater range of information held in a fully integrated diabetes patient record
  • A single point of data entry across primary and secondary care providers reducing data duplication and transfer (SCI-DC Back-Population)
• Improved functionality using a common and sustainable technical platform
  • Reduction in data interface and transfer Additional data held (Ulcer Management, Dietetics, etc)
  • No need for paper trail between Primary and Secondary care and other specialists.
• Register underpins national programmes and surveys
  • Diabetes Retinal Screening Programme
  • Scottish Diabetes Survey (Scotland has an international reputation for having some of the best data of diabetes anywhere in the world. SCI-DC has allowed us to demonstrate year on year improvements in the quality of diabetes care)
  • Scottish Foot Framework support
  • SIGN Clinical guidelines support