EHR Integration Guide

Integration toolkit How to integrate BMJ Best Practice with your EHR system

This toolkit will take you through the three EHR integration options available. Once you have decided on the best option for your trust, the BMJ team will work with youto ensure integration is straightforward. We provide support every step of the way.

We all know that the best decisions depend on the best evidence. But how do your healthcare professionals put that evidence into practice? Well, help is at hand. We offer integration with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to provide healthcare professionals with the latest evidence-based information - all within the clinical workflow. EHR integration will allow your staff to have instant access to BMJ Best Practice at the point of care.

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Option 1 Link your EHR system to the BMJ Best Practice homepage

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Average implementation time: 2 hours

This is the simplest form of integration and will enable your healthcare professionals to have one-click access from your EHR system to the homepage of BMJ Best Practice. We can also provide you with specific links to enable your healthcare professionals to dive in to particular topics or subsections of topics eg. COVID-19 treatment algorithm. If you are interested in this option, please contact us. We will provide you with a unique URL to share with your IT team.

Contact us to discuss an option that suits you.

“The electronic patient record (Rio) integration was a straightforward process for our informatics team. We are delighted to be able to give our staff easy access to the latest clinical information from BMJ Best Practice. By more closely integrating evidence-based knowledge resources into Rio, there is the potential to reduce information barriers, increase our uptake of evidence, and improve patient outcomes. ”

Dr Jonathan Richardson Chief Clinical Information Officer, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Option 2 Embed a BMJ Best Practice search widget in your EHR

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Average implementation time: 2 hours

An embedded search widget will enable healthcare professionals to search BMJ Best Practice topics and clinical information directly from the EHR system. This gives fast access to our trusted information from within the clinical workflow. If you are interested in this option, please contact us. BMJ will provide user interface designs and simple javascript to support your IT team to embed the search widget.

Contact us to discuss an option that suits you.

‘We opted to use the BMJ search widget to integrate into one of our existing web pages as this allowed staff to add a search term directly from that web page. We chose an existing webpage that was heavily used as this made the roll out much easier. Once we received the technical information the development work took less than 1 hour to embed into the web page and make available to thousands of staff.’ Ben Scorer Systems Development Manager at Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear

Option 3 Add a diagnosis specific link (infobutton) to your EHR

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Average implementation time: 3 hours

An infobutton displayed in the context of a patient’s problem list will allow a clinician to retrieve BMJ Best Practice treatment guidelines on a specific condition as well as relevant patient education material to share with the patient. If you are interested in this option, please contact us. BMJ will provide deep links into BMJ Best Practice using I CD10 or SNOMED-CT codes, and the HL7 Infobutton standard. We will also provide your IT team with links to API documentation and technical detail information required.

Contact us to discuss an option that suits you.

What else can BMJ Best Practice do for you? BMJ Best Practice is the only clinical decision support tool that prioritises local guidelines for healthcare professionals. The local guidance tool will enable you to easily add links to your local clinical information to BMJ Best Practice topics. This provides healthcare professionals with increased visibility and ease of access to local protocol guidance alongside national and international guidance. Find out more: bestpractice.bmj.com

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