Docman EDT
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Electronic Document Transfer (EDT)enables practices to receive documents sent electronically from participating Acute Trusts directly into Docman. EDT enables GP practices to receive documents directly from hospitals electronically without the need for manual attachment or scanning.If additional information is sent with the document (known as 'meta-data') it can be used to automatically identify patient and document details without user intervention. Processing documents via EDT saves considerable time compared with manual handling of documents, resulting in greatly improved communications between the hospitals and GPs.
EDT provides
GPs with a central location for all incoming clinical
correspondence. Implementation requires that an Acute Trust has the ability to send documents electronically. This may be via NHS Email, a proprietary intranet based system, a clinical document source (eg. Medisec.NET) or via PCTI's "EDT Host" server. EDT Host can be used to broker documents from departmental and middleware integration systems (e.g Anglia, Indigo4, Carestream) out to practices using Docman EDT. The graphic below illustrates how Docman EDT provides integration between Acute and Primary care systems.
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