[Leeds, UK] Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s board has approved a three-year continued development path for its in-house Electronic Health Record (EHR), known as PPM+, developed in Leeds since 2003.
The newly-approved programme will be led by the trust’s new Chief Digital and Information Officer, Richard Corbridge, with a roadmap for development expected to be published before the end of this month.
PPM+ is integrated to over 35 systems across health and social care throughout the Leeds area and this year it will offer a full ‘Scan 4 Safety’ solution that will enable tracking of different elements of health and care across the Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust.
Corbridge said the development of PPM+ would be supported by the CCIO team at the trust, which will see three ‘focused’ roles: a CCIO with clinical and medical focus, a CCIO with nursing and AHP focus, and one with an academic and innovation focus.
“As we move into the new year there is a renewed excitement across Leeds for what the PPM+ solution can deliver.
“Across other jurisdictions Leeds has been seen as leading the way in the delivery of integrated digital health care through the availability of PPM+,” he added.
Corbridge said the continued development of PPM+ will be at the centre of the digital health and care vision for the Leeds area ‘until at least 2021’.
Dr Geoff Hall, CCIO at the trust, said the commitment would offer clinical teams the support needed to engage with the ongoing development of PPM+ as the trust moves towards ‘a fully digital hospital in 2020 and beyond’.
At the King’s Fund Sharing Health and Care Records event in Leeds last month, Dr Hall said there were more than 16,000 active users of PPM+ across the trust, with 50 million data views recorded in November.
PPM+, described outside the trust as the Leeds Care Record, is often seen as an exemplary integrated care records solution throughout Europe.
