Healthcare Solutions
Clinical Audit
Clinical governance is a quality improvement process that looks to improve the quality of patient care, outcomes and experience by measuring and improving the quality of clinical services against best practice standards. Clinical audits are often undertaken for qulaity improvement specialists, health managers and commissioners or clinicians. One of the key stages in a clinical audit is to measure performance.
THE CHALLENGE
Measuring performance for clinical audits requires a robust data collection process not only based on clinicians’ assessments but often involving patient and public engagement (PPE). Recently patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) have started to be used in clinical audit and have been collected from patients using questionnaires. As with any survey, questionnaires need to be reliable and valid.
THE SOLUTION
Formic Fusion is proven clinical audit software that promotes clinical precision in the audit process, relieving pressure on resources within a clinical audit department and providing an automated solution to the problem of processing survey forms.
Formic Fusion software enables any form design to be deployed to tablet PCs, handheld devices such as PDAs and the web in addition to paper.
The software comprises three modules that reduce the time spent at each stage of the survey process: Survey Design, Data Capture, Analysis and Reporting. Collected data can be fed in to Patient Administration Systems (PAS), Microbiology or Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS) and Infection Control Management (ICM) systems such as ICNet or simply exported to Microsoft Access, Excel or SPSS for rigorous statistical analysis.