SCI-Diabetes Features & Benefits

SCI-Diabetes Delivers The Following Features And Key Benefits:

  • A single shared electronic record
    • Available regardless of geographical boundaries and patient location
  • Cross boundary support
    • Patients record available to all providing treatment
  • Real time data entry
    • Data entered will be available immediately
    • Can be used to determine cost of treatment
    • Shows strategic department usage for service audit
  • Full patient contact record and record of care
    • Can be used to determine cost of contact
  • Reduced Health Board cost to support service
    • No clinical system to host or technically support
    • Training of Clinical staff easier and more cost effective with a single system
    • Less duplication
    • Greater confidence in data being held
    • Facility to flag erroneous data
    • Reduction of potential data transcription errors through reduced interface requirements
  • Greater range of information held in a fully integrated diabetes patient record
    • A single point of data entry across primary and secondary care providers reducing data duplication and transfer (SCI-DC Back-Population)
  • Improved functionality using a common and sustainable technical platform
    • Reduction in data interface and transfer Additional data held (Ulcer Management, Dietetics, etc)
    • No need for paper trail between Primary and Secondary care and other specialists.
  • Register underpins national programmes and surveys
    • Diabetes Retinal Screening Programme
    • Scottish Diabetes Survey (Scotland has an international reputation for having some of the best data of diabetes anywhere in the world. SCI-DC has allowed us to demonstrate year on year improvements in the quality of diabetes care)
    • Scottish Foot Framework support
    • SIGN Clinical guidelines support