Authors: (including presenting author): :
YIU KC(1), YEUNG CY(1), NG WL(1), YAN CI(1), NGAN HT(1), LAU JK(1), HO WY(1), LAM KY(1), CHEUNG TL(1), WONG HL(1), HUI KW(1)
Affiliation: :
(1) Information Technology and Health Informatics Division (IT&HI), Hospital Authority Head Office (HAHO)
Keyword 1: :
Inpatient care
Keyword 2: :
Clinical decision support
Keyword 4: :
Horizontal integration
Keyword 5: :
One‑stop platform
Introduction: :
Smart Ward products under the IT&HI Division, including in-patient Result Screening, paperless ECG, and e‑Vitals, have contributed to advance inpatient care. Building on these foundations, further integration across systems can substantially improve interdisciplinary workflow efficiency and patient safety during ward rounds. e-Documentation (e-Doc) extends beyond documentation as an one stop platform to incorporate closed-loop management order tracking, and seamless horizontal integration of Smart Ward products, supporting healthcare providers to consolidate information viewing and decision making within a single interface.
Objectives: :
This project aimed to:
- Achieve horizontal integration of Smart Ward products within e Doc to deliver one-stop experience during ward round
- Enable closed-looping treatment order with patient-level and ward level notifications
Methodology: :
The development of e-Doc is under Smart Hospital Program. Product design focuses on driving data accuracy, data accessibility and user-friendly to support day-to-day clinical operation. Horizontal integration with clinical systems were deeply embedded in the project to improve clinical efficiency which has brought forward to further implementation at HA in 2026.
Result & Outcome: :
Horizontal integration within e‑Doc provided a synergistic strategy for clinical operation, enabling quick access to clinical data, investigation results, and multidisciplinary documentation on a single platform. Closed-loop management functions strengthened follow-up visibility, resulting in about 4,000 screening results and 6,000 management orders supported through e-Doc per inpatient setting each month. The one-stop view in e-Doc was emphasized by frontline healthcare providers as a key enabler of more efficient and coordinated inpatient care.
