Systems staying on with a connection to EPR

Not every system will be replaced when EPR goes live. These systems will continue in use - but they will be connected to EPR through a data feed, either sending information to EPR, receiving it, or both.

What that means in practice varies by system. In some cases, data you record in your current system will flow automatically into the EPR patient record. In others, EPR will push information back to a specialist system that needs it. The goal is to reduce the points where staff have to enter the same information twice.

If you work with one of these systems, your day-to-day use of it is unlikely to change significantly at go-live. The feed runs in the background. What should change is that the information held in EPR and in your system stays more in step.

The details of each feed - what data moves, in which direction, and when - are being confirmed as part of how the EPR is being built right now. More information will come through your workstream leads and the programme's usual channels as go-live approaches.

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