Panasonic Central to Digitising Patient Records across Northern Ireland with State-of-the-Art Solution

Depending on Windows 11 in the Field

With NIAS’ G2 devices running exclusively on Windows 10 and migrating to Windows 11 in 2025, accessibility and customisation of the device has been vastly improved. 

NIAS has also customised the G2’s function buttons to quickly enable the flashlight function, Night Mode (which dims brightness levels) and other shortcuts – all of which can save valuable time when at an incident. The TOUGHBOOK G2’s ease-of-use is also beneficial for patients, who sometimes need to use the device, e.g., when verifying information with signatures.

Enhancing Patient Care across Northern Ireland

The MobiMed ePCR and TOUGHBOOK combination has had a significant impact on patient care and operations for NIAS. Since the devices were introduced across NIAS’ fleet of emergency response vehicles, its crews have seamlessly created over 100,000 electronic patient care records. 

Access to patient history, their medical profile and previous ePCRs informs NIAS clinicians of important patient information such as allergies and medication history and contributes to making clinical decisions. This is especially important when saving seconds and minutes can have a profound impact on patient wellbeing and safety.

MobiMed ePCR enables efficient handover records to be shared with hospitals before patient arrival, and with GPs once patients have been discharged. This streamlines the sharing of information needed for the continuity of patient care. It also supports increased transparency, legal compliance, and reduces environmental waste.

The clinical data within MobiMed is also used to formulate wider clinical plans, which can directly impact the care delivered. This ensures that the data being collected, using Ortivus’ MobiMed ePCR solution through TOUGHBOOK G2 devices, is being used to its fullest extent.

Finally, all records created within MobiMed ePCR feeds into ‘encompass,’ a health and social care programme that includes a digital care record for every citizen in Northern Ireland who receives health and social care. With multiple care providers needing access to data collected by NIAS through MobiMed, this can now be accessed in as a little as one day. 

It enables NIAS to better coordinate with other health services and the wider Health and Social Care system. It also ties into the UK healthcare sector’s ongoing service transformation, allowing for increased benchmarking and sharing of best practice for the delivery of pre-hospital care.