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Rupert Fawdry, Founding Editor

Helga Perry, General Editor of eepd.info and Administrator of EEPDtalk and EEPDwiki

Assistant to Founding Editor, Irina Kullikova

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Latest update (14 August 2011):
We are delighted to announce that the 
WIKI version of Vol. 4. Data Resource Document is now live.

Welcome to the EEPD

The EEPD website is having a makeover!

Please bear with us as we update and improve the site and integrate more closely with our discussion component EEPDtalk and our  Wiki initiative EEPDwiki. 

What is the EEPD initiative?

Please read Introduction to the EEPD, especially "What the EEPD is" and the 12-point Summary (on EEPDtalk).

The EEPD is a long-term voluntary generic initiative by clinicians to link together all that is needed for an open-source, joined-up approach to improving shared Electronic and Paper IT Systems for Hospital/Community Maternity and Neonatal Care (in fact, exactly what was needed in 1990 when providing the clinical input for the creation of the best selling Protos/iSoft/Evolution/Lorenz Maternity IT system). 

 

The EEPD is entirely supported by voluntary contributions (99% so far by RF) and has no connection whatsoever with any commercial company - or, so far, with any other organisation. 

 Helga Perry (General Editor) and Rupert Fawdry (Founding Editor), July 2011

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A Template for all shared-care specialities?

 

The Essential Bedrock Foundation and Template

 

for all shared

 

Community & Hospital IT systems

 

  

Analysable and linkable Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) will only attain their true potential for improving the quality of patient care and reducing the risk of human error without excessive data re-entry overload, when, in each speciality and sub-speciality - following intense, open, web-based discussions by clinicians - their detailed, logically and chronologically-arranged, flow-patterned INPUT questions and the full range of all allowable answer-options - [always including "free text" whenever needed e.g. “Unknown (free text)” and “Other (free text)”] - are, by stages, using the best possible wording, taking account of as many interested parties as possible, individual question by individual question, internationally standardised. (Like our classification of organisms, diseases and operations, but far more complex)

Housing may be to provide Shelter; but always Foundation first, Roof afterwards. 

So, standardise Primary (Individual Care) Data First; defining Secondary (Management/Analysis) Data comes later.

 

Such specifications will only become universally standardised if they are created by hundreds of hours of internet based work by health care professionals, since only they have the professional knowledge required for this task, and are open-source and cost-free to all potential users. 

 

Confidential commercial competition has no place in the creation of the question and all allowable answer options used in the software required for fully functioning electronic analysable patient records. 

 

The most vital open-access part of the EEPD is therefore...   

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