AMD

New services to provide anti-VEGF intravitreal injection treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are being established at hospitals throughout the world. Many centres struggle to cope with the volume of clinic visits.

With paper-based process decision making is slow and it is impossible to audit access to treatment, service delivery or the outcome of care.

Medisoft & service redesign doubles the efficiency of anti-VEGF clinics

The Royal College of Ophthalmologists recently published new guidelines on ‘ Maximising capacity in AMD services ‘, which state: ‘ one consultant can oversee a clinic where up to 45 patients with AMD are evaluated and treated. Data is all entered into an electronic system prior to the arrival of the consultant ‘

Medisoft & service redesign reduce the clinic costs to 50 % of the NICE tariff – a huge efficiency gain, which pays for the software in less than a year.

How is this achieved?

• Consultant roams between 3 rooms where optometrists / nurse practitioners perform OCT and slit-lamp fundal examination and enter all data into the EPR.
• Medisoft’s AMD summary chart speeds decisions by clearly presenting each patient’s re-treatment criteria, Visual Acuity, Central Retinal Thickness and treatments over time
• Medisoft’s OCT Interfaces allow clinicians to rapidly flick through previous OCT images
• Automatic letter generation: no need for dictation / secretaries
• Paperless clinics: these are the ideal clinics to make paperless working a reality, which saves the cost of retrieving, preparing and filing notes.
• AMD Audits as a by-product of normal clinical care

Medisoft’s Medical Retina module makes all aspects of the AMD care pathway auditable at the click of a button.