EDT Hub

EDT Hub
Developer(s) PCTI Solutions Ltd
Stable release Version 800800 / September 2011 (September 2011)
Written in .NET
Operating system Windows
Available in English
Type Document Management
License Proprietary
Website www.docman.com

EDT Hub

EDT Hub captures documents and distributes them electronically to any GP practice or organisation connected to it. EDT Hub is used widely within the NHS, in England where it is currently being used within over forty NHS Trusts. EDT is also deployed throughout the NHS in Scotland EDT Hub comes in two versions, uni-directional and multi-directional. Uni-directional hubs allow one way transfers of documents from a source (in a hospital) to an end point (the patient's General Practitioner). Multi-directional hubs allow document transfers to happen between any end points, The EDT Hub can be fully integrated with the Docman document management system and can be used with other clinical systems currently deployed within the NHS.

EDT Hub has ability to link multiple secondary care organisations(such as hospitals)with multiple primary care organisations (such as GP Surgeries), and saves the NHS money because it reduces paper consumption and printing costs whilst speeding up delivery and reducing the risk of document loss.

EDT Hub is being used by NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent and NHS Medway to transfer 900,000 documents electronically. Hospitals in NHS Surrey are also sending documents electronically to GP practices and also Coventry and Warwickshire and Herefordshire PCT are delivering to GP practices via EDT Hub.

Documents typically handled by EDT Hub include:

This product is notable as one of the first of its kind to be granted NHS Interoperability Toolkit Accreditation.

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