What ADVISR Can Be Used For
The system is simple to use and allows professionals to reach out for more specialist opinions and support in order to plan care. Virtual advice can help and support professional to enhance treatments and improve the quality of care delivery. By removing the need for smart cards advanced A&G is now available to everyone in primary care.
The system has been designed to enhance the traditional advice and guidance by offering a shared care dialogue where communications can continue for longer periods of time with multiple professionals involved in delivering and monitoring care. Examples include glaucoma monitoring, special care dentistry.
ADVISR is able to offer support for long term condition management. The system allows for communication and advice to remain live between professional on an ongoing basis allowing clinicians to plan care together for patients for the long term.
Advisr enables the collection of structured research data across multiple sites with extensive BI tools to view findings. Subject consent modules streamline recruitment. Use our group rooms to teach remotely using clinical imaging with assessment and feedback.
ADVISR is developed so that at any point in an advice and guidance conversation an automated referral can be generated. The referral contains all the imaging, data and clinical dialogue collected during the A&G session and can be sent to eRS providers, primary care or advanced services using our national and local Directory of Services.
ADVISR has been developed using modules in order to be able to reduce variation and refine the pathway of care. The modules are developed to underpin the pathways of care using the national guidance and best practice but can be refreshed and updated as required by local users. Modules support structured, consistent data.
About Us
Advisr has been developed and deployed by FDS Consultants – a clinically led team who have over ten years of experience in the management of referrals, commissioning, and service transformation. More than software development, FDS help in change management, deployment, training and their clinicians can help design and implement complex pathways that help support your patients.
Case Studies
Malcolm is a 70 year old who knows his optometrist well and attends yearly for sight tests. He attended complaining of blurred vision in one eye over last couple of months, not having impact on day to day tasks. OCT was performed, resulting in referral, via Advisr with images, due to macular appearance. Ophthalmologist reviewed this and found mild vitreomacular traction, no treatment required. Guidance sent to optometrist to share with Malcolm.
Sammy’s dentist was concerned about frequent mouth ulcers. He didn’t think they were serious, but Sammy had read that ulcers can be associated with oral cancer. Using Advisr Sammy’s dentist was able to ask the advice of a Consultant in oral medicine, and the episode of care was resolved without the need to attend a hospital appointment.
Janice had been in seen in hospital for her oral lichen planus a few years ago, however, her dentist noticed a change in the appearance and thought they should seek advice. Using Advisr the Consulant was able to compare the appearance of the lesion and decided that an urgent 2 week wait referral was indicated. The referral function in Advisr ensure this was done immediately.
Amy is a 34 year old lady who attended her local optometrist after signposting from her GP to the Community Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES). She has a 2 day history of red painful eye, she has history of a previous episode of similar symptoms 2 years ago. The optometrist undertook history and symptoms and slit lamp examination and sought advice and guidance. Amy was noted to have a dendritic ulcer associated with recurrent of Herpes Simplex Keratitis and was managed effectively.
Modules & Customisation
Advisr differs from traditional A&G systems by offering a range of clinical modules that enable structured data to be collected in a consistent manner. Modules also provide the structure of pathways for the management of long term conditions, shared care and research data collection. With a wide range of pre-built modules to select from, we can also produce custom modules to support your clinical needs, local pathways or provider requirements.
Integration
Advisr is fully integrated with key NHS digital infrastructure including patient demographics (PDS), the national e-referral system, the new EeRS systems for optometry referrals and the Summary Care Record system to enable urgent care to be managed. Advisr also offers a fully integrated video telemedicine service, and calls can be scheduled between professionals or patients with automatic reminders. We also provide a fully integrated PACS solution, see Imaging below for more information.
Imaging
Unlike eRS based A&G, Advisr can accept a wide range of imaging types with file size only dictated by your upload speed. Large, multi slice OCT images, cone-beam CT or high resolution MP4 slit lamp files can all be uploaded with ease. Once in Advisr they can be viewed by any member of the team using our PACS viewer, and sent to hospital PACS using our IEP integration.