dartOCM Browser Based Order Communications

dartOCM is a browser based order communications solution, designed to meet the needs of individual users, along with primary care and hospital departments.

Accessed through a web browser, dartOCM can be used to order Pathology, Radiology, or other requests either remotely from a GP surgery or directly from the hospital wards.

The solution enables users to easily input validated patient information, clinical information (both coded and free text), and clinical tests based on the coding tables of the inidividual hospital.

Plumtree Group has ensured that dartOCM is compatible with all nationally recognised GP systems. This allows dartOCM to provide real benefits across the full spectrum of requesting locations.

SIMPLE - Web browser access allows pathology requests to be ordered remotely from the GP surgery or directly from the hospital.

ACCURATE - Automated data capture reduces clinical risk due to transcription errors.

VERSATILE - The software is both flexible and expandable, ensuring complete integration with existing infrastructures, including Lab to Lab, GP , or PAS.

INSTANT ACCESS - The status of each test can be viewed on the web browser at any stage, allowing immediate access to results, reducing laboratory time spent phoning through results, and reducing repeat tests due to missing information.

WORKFLOW - Time saved in processing and communicating requests leads to a reduction in the pre analytical bottlenecks commonly associated with specimen reception.

SECURITY - Software includes powerful encryption (SSL) and password technology at a system, folder, and document level.

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Why standards matter
 
Standards ensure desirable characteristics of products and services such as quality, safety, reliability and efficiency.

Best Practice

Information Security Management System in Health using ISO/IEC 27002

ISO 27799 is an information security standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The purpose of ISO 27799 is to provide guidance to health organizations and other holders of personal health information on how to protect such information via implementation of ISO/IEC 27002.

Records Management: NHS Code of Practice

The NHS Code of Practice has been developed by the Department of Health as a guide to the required standards of practice in the management of records for those who work within or under contract to the NHS organisations in England. It is based on current legal requirements and professional best practice.

Information Governance 
 
Information Governance is the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information on all media in such a way that it supports an organisation's immediate and future regulatory, legal, risk, environmental and operational requirements.

The Information Governance framework encompasses:

• Data Protection Act 1998
• Freedom of Information Act 2000
• Records Management
• Information Security
• IT Security
• Information Governance Management
• A confidentiality Code of Practice
• An Information Governance training programme for all employees

Legal Obligations

The Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Act was fully implemented on the 1st January 2005. It was implemented as part of the 'Open Government' initiative, and requires public bodies to respond positively to requests for information from individuals.

Data Protection Act 1998

Personal information for business use needs to comply with the rules of the Data Protection Act 1998, regardless of the 'system' of Document Management. The Data Protection Act 1998 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK.

The Civil Evidence Act 1995 
 
This is one of the most important acts in the UK. Here the onus is to move the question of admissibility to actual evidential weight carried by a scanned document. This is determined by the procedures followed by a company presenting any documents to the court. A company presenting documents that have not been altered since its creation and have a clear audit trail that shows any and all changes since its creation holds a greater “weight‟ than a document that cannot show these procedures.

PREFERRED SPECIFICATIONS FOR PLUMTREE GROUP SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Please note the specifications detailed below are our preferred choice for an average application.

Our server based web applications require the following three roles, these may be on either virtual or physical servers. The roles may be either combined into a single server; on separate servers; or where appropriate infrastructure pre-exists, integrated into your existing servers, clusters, and storage solutions.

Webserver (Minimum Specification)

SQL Server (Minimum Specification)

File Server (Minimum Specification)

Web Client Requirements