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FOI 0238 2019/20: Maternity Electronic Records

Freedom of Information Request: 0238 2019/20

  1. Do Maternity Services record antenatal care episodes in electronic systems or in hand held records (paper)? These are recorded electronically
  2. If you use an electronic system/s to record antenatal care, what is the name of the systems? BadgerNet Does this system talks to other maternity systems you may use? We do not use any other maternity system
  3. Do Maternity Services record intrapartum care episodes in electronic systems or in hand held records (paper)? If you use an electronic system/s which one is it?We have 3 sites that have a maternity unit and 1 of these fully records intrapartum care contemporaneously. The other 2 sites currently record in retrospect. They will be going live in September for contemporaneous documentation.

    If you use an electronic system/s to record intrapartum care, what are the names of those systems? BadgerNetDoes this system talk to other maternity systems you may use? We don’t use any other maternity system

  4. Do Maternity Services record postnatal care episodes in electronic systems or in hand held records (paper)? If you use an electronic system/s which one do you use? We have 3 sites that have a maternity unit and 1 of these fully records postnatal care contemporaneously electronically. The other 2 sites currently record on paper. They will be going live in September for contemporaneous electronic documentation.

    If you use an electronic system/s to record postnatal care, what are the names of the system(s)? BadgerNet
    Does this system talk to other maternity systems you may use? We don’t use any other maternity system

  5. Do Maternity Services record community care episodes in electronic systems or in hand held records (paper)? If you use an electronic system/s which one do you use? Only Community Midwife documents to the Maternity record electronically
    If you use an electronic system/s to record community care, what is the name of that system (s)?
    BadgerNetDo this system talks to other maternity systems you may use? We don’t use any other maternity system
  6. Do any systems used have full interface with your PAS system? Yes, we have a maternity system which interfaces with the PAS for patient demographic information, admissions and new baby registrations.
  7. Do you have a fully integrated NHS number retrieval system for a newborn? Yes
  8. Does it collect an NHS number and then create that child in your PAS? No, the NHS number is generated automatically but the Midwife has to electronically “push” the baby details from the Maternity system to create the baby in PAS
  9. Do you have an interface with their neonatal system – what system is this? Neonatal BadgerNet
  10. Do you have a full interface with your pathology system? Pathology reports are fed into BadgerNet (but no data fields are populated)
  11. If yes, how does it manage multiple results per woman and display most recent? Multiple results are displayed in a tab called “lab results” and the most recent is displayed at the top Can you order tests through the system? No
  12. How do you record your NIPE checks? Via NIPE Smart
  13. Does your maternity software link directly with and update your GROW package if you have it? Yes
  14. Does your maternity system record and store, antenatal and intrapartum CTGs? It has the functionality to do this – our Trust doesn’t use this.
  15. It has the functionality to do this – our Trust doesn’t use this. Not applicable.
  16. Did you have any issues with the recent MSDS v2 submissions? Yes – only because we a share a pregnancy record with another trust and this created issues with duplicate NHS numbers within the MSDS extract.
  17. Did you have any issues with the recent January MSDS v1.5 submissions? Any issues we did have the company were responsive in resolving them.
  18. Did you pass the threshold? Yes

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