MAXIMS Discharge Summary gives authorised healthcare professionals and related disciplines the ability to input clinical data at each stage of the care delivery process, creating a complete care record which can be shared by all disciplines when required and printed upon discharge.

A sample screen displaying a document which has been generated by the system for the discharge of a patient is shown.

Key Functionality

MAXIMS Clinical electronic patient record software incorporates all the following as a single entity:

• MAXIMS Clinicals which provides all the necessary underlying functionality.
• MAXIMS Clinical Documentation – provides the ability to capture, review and share the patient’s clinical notes in variety of combinations. These include unstructured (free-text entry), graphical and structured formats to support the patient journey from pre-admission, to discharge and follow-up, including outpatient attendances.
• The Assessment Toolkit enables the Trust to configure any locally used clinical assessment forms to supplement the standard assessment forms supplied within the system.
• Reporting - The MAXIMS Report Builder tool is provided as standard to create reports locally (these include patient letters, documents, discharge summaries, etc.).

Benefits

• Reduced risk and improved performance as paper discharge correspondence (which is often illegible and incomplete) is replaced by the MAXIMS Discharge Summary letter.
• Flexibility of output, tailored to the hospital’s need, which can be reproduced in electronic or hard copy.
• Correctly completed output – users are notified of any omissions prior to the generation of the letter. Discharge summaries which were frequently inadequate to support complete clinical coding, are replaced by fully coded MAXIMS documents.
• Rapid Response/Access - the real time production of hard copy /electronic documents, which are non-reliant on secretarial availability, will meet the needs of both Hospital-based clinicians and GP’s. Instant access to electronic care summaries will eliminate the late receipt of typed discharge letters. All documents are electronic and can be directly imported into GP systems.
• Efficient use of resources as secretarial demand is lessened. Real time electronic process replaces previous labour-intensive and slow, paper based mechanisms.
• Immediate access to previous letters and correspondence as these are stored electronically rather than in paper format.
• Enhanced performance as discharge communication is now only sent to the patient’s GP, details of which are in the system.
• Improved management of discharge medication. Efficient recording and dispensing of discharge medication which will improve patient safety and impact favourably upon cost. Discharge medication is recorded as a permanent part of the patient’s record.
• Instant access to full handover information at any stage.
• Improved security – the data is fully protected by NHS approved software.
• Speedy, intuitive and structured data entry ensured through the use of dialogue boxes containing drop down lists.
• Reduction of training overload through the use of a Web based system.
• Rapid and easy deployment via local and wide area networking through the use of internet browsing technology.
• Reduced hardware requirements through the use of web functionality thus reducing implementation cost.