Helen Paterson
Department of Women’s and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago
(Thursday, 2.00, General 1)
Maternity Plus ™ is the Maternity Information System used in the Southern District Health Board (SDHB). It is used by Lead Maternity Carers (LMC) in the primary sector and Kew and Dunedin Hospitals in the secondary and tertiary sectors. At present all maternity bookings are completed by LMCs on paper and sent to the SDHB, that data is subsequently entered manually into the SDHB Maternity Plus system. Our goal is to integrate the electronic systems used to optimise efficiency and accuracy of data entry and use.
6. Users in Southern District Health Board
Lead Maternity Carers (LMC) using Midwifery
and Maternity Providers Organisation (MMPO)
services
Primary
Queen Mary Maternity Centre
Secondary / tertiary
7. Objective
Integrate primary and secondary electronic
systems
Optimise efficiency and accuracy of data entry
Improve the ease of data capture
8. Concept
Stage 1: An Electronic Facility Booking sent
when a woman provides her LMC with her
planned place of birth
9. Concept
Stage 2: Electronic Facility Admission, transfer
of agreed content clinical record of the
pregnancy held by the LMC at the time the
woman is admitted
10. Concept
Stage 3: Electronic Facility Discharge back to
the LMC. This will include a complete (agreed)
clinical record that can be loaded into the LMC’s
version of Maternity Plus from the secondary
facility’s labour, birth and postnatal record
17. Privacy
Messages are transported between the LMC and the
facility using HealthLink
Standard HL7 RSD messaging structure
Acknowledgement message from the facility to the
LMC on receipt of new booking, update and
cancellation message
The LMC as the sender of the information has
control over the content sent
18. Advantages
Time
Transcription errors
Data entry at point of care
Ease of updating the facility on miscarriage or
women changing facility for their birth
Capacity planning by the facility
Audit
19. Present project status
Electronic Bookings System is operational and
in secondary testing within Queen Mary
Maternity centre, SDHB
There is support and enthusiasm to progress to
Stage 3
20. Future developments
Integration with alternative information systems
MedTech
Incisive
Transferable clinical maternity record
21. Acknowledgments
Prue Thomson - LMC
Sally McNeil - LMC
Georgia Grant – QMMC core midwife
Ann Henriques - Solutions Plus
Christine Hendry - MMPO