Implementing a Neonatal Electronic Health Record

This toolkit has been developed in recognition of the increasing implementation of trust-wide electronic patient record (EPR) or electronic health record systems (EHRs), and the growing expectation for the involvement of neonatal health professionals in the selection and implementation of electronic records locally and regionally. 

This document aims to: 

• Ensure that neonatology remains an integral part of any hospital wide EPR.
• Equip neonatal teams with the knowledge to enable neonatal teams across the UK to actively engage with their organisation’s digital journey leading to digital solutions appropriate and adequate for the needs of staff, babies and their families.
• Provide a list of essential, highly desirable and desirable capabilities defining the neonatal need for record keeping, local and national audit, quality improvement and benchmarking, and research.
• Provide healthcare professionals caring for neonates the understanding and language to discuss their EPR needs with technical and procurement teams from scoping, selection through to implementation.
• Share knowledge and experience from teams that have experienced an EPR configuration and implementation, with teams at different stages of the process.