King's first hospital Docman customer

King’s College Hospital NHS Trust has become the first acute care customer of the Docman electronic document management system in England.

PCTI’s Docman is already used already by more than 5,500 GP practices in Britain. It will now be used by the London teaching hospital to electronically manage referral letters as part of its strategy to become paper-light.

Its use in both primary and secondary care will provide an end-to-end document management system.

PCTI said the referral management system will be used to reform the process by which referrals for outpatient services were logged, vetted and graded by clinicians and tracked through to appointment booking.

The solution will be used right across the trust to speed up the flow of information between departments, where paper processes could be time consuming and constrained.

PCTI managing director Ric Thompson said: “We have some really exciting plans for Docman in secondary care which will help trusts transform the way they manage their information.

“Docman in secondary care builds on our experience of providing EDT Hub, an electronic document transfer platform.

“We are already talking to some of our 50 plus EDT Hub secondary care customers about Docman secondary care.”