The Challenge • Free up valuable hospital space and improve information access by digitising: – Four on-site patient record libraries (~700,000-1,000,000 sets of records) – An off-site archive (~18 million records or ~2.8 billion pages) • Simultaneously reduce the health records budget year on year The Solution • Ability to leverage the trust’s ‘digital at point of care’ strategy • Partnership with Xerox to: – Implement an end-to-end record scanning service – Deliver a secure cloud-based document management system, completely integrated with the trust’s electronic health record (EHR) system The Results • Successful pilot: ~30,000 records scanned in six months at Western Eye Hospital • 547m 2 of floor space claimed back for clinical use so far • >30% reduction in hea

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