Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has implemented ExtraMed's Outpatient Clinical Coding System, joining existing users of the system at Bedford Hospital. The application facilitates the capture of any coding structures (ICD10 and OPCS4) without requiring specialist coding knowledge - data which is imperative for the accurate and timely reporting required for Payment By Results (PBR) and Practice Based Commisssioning (PBC) level activity.

The application will integrate with Addenbrooke's Patient Administration System (PAS) to aggregate only clinical detail relevant information to the point of care; Clinic Appointments Schedule, Names and Clinic type. Returning to co-morbid and any alert details will improve the collection of associated data. It will return clinically coded activity in ICD10 & OPCS4 codes into the PAS. Additionally the system has the flexibility to allow the capure and collection of High Tariff medications and any other "off plan" types of information.

The system will allow increased and more adaptable reporting on coding activity. This improves the level and quality of data captured for PBR purposes by moving the point of capture as close as possible to the point of creation minimising data re-entry.