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What is Vision 360?

The natural home for a patient’s medical record is at their registered practice, where GPs and their teams rely on the information daily to support their clinical decisions. Yet decisions made at other care settings in the same geographic area are often made with limited information and an incomplete understanding of the patient’s overall medical history. Not an ideal situation.

Why don’t we just take the medical information about patients from the registered GP’s computer and make it available to the authorised clinicians working outside of the practice?

This is exactly what Vision 360 does. It builds local health communities around central patient records to support safe clinical decision making, improve patient care and ensure the healthcare provision is cost-effective.

Detailed Patient Records at all Care Settings

To make this possible, Vision 360 has its own central database of patient records. The information from Vision and EMIS systems is streamed into Vision 360 as an invisible background process throughout the working day.

Information from other trusted systems can be added to this data using interoperability standards, allowing Vision 360 to present a single, all-encompassing view of the patient’s medical history to authorised clinicians, using nothing more than a computer with an N3 connection and a web browser.

Business Continuity and Remote Access

There are advantages for the registered practice too. They get access to their records if their clinical system is unavailable as a result of a catastrophic failure, as well as simple access for GPs when they are working from home.

Cost-effective Referrals

Vision 360 gives PCTs, health boards and consortia the information they need to support the best use of local care pathways, and to promote compliance with local guidelines and budget monitoring exercises.

Cross-Practice Reporting

Collating information from multiple sources is time-consuming and fraught with complexity. Vision 360 creates aggregated cross-practice reports that identify potential cost savings quickly and easily, by sending requested reports directly to your inbox. This information includes referrals, expensive patients, prescription analysis, emergency admissions, patient demographics, test requesting rates and the uptake of public health services.

Information Governance and Security

Ensuring your patient records are only ever shared with the right people is an intrinsic component of Vision 360. Each local health community decides exactly which elements of its data should be shared, and these can vary between services that are running side by side; for example, your diabetes service can have access to one set of data, while your out-of-hours service uses another.

A Scaleable Solution

Vision 360 is built to allow tens of thousands of concurrent users - plenty for any consortium, health board or even country-wide deployment. It is hosted to NHS Connecting for Health standards and meets all NHS security standards and protocols, including single sign-on and role-based access.

As well as being able to extend the breadth of the data by increasing the number of practices that stream data into Vision 360, you can also increase the depth of the data by enriching the patient records with information from other clinical systems outside of primary care.