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Boosting Efficiency in Sexual Health Departments with Cellma our Pioneering Electronic Medical Records Software.  

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Sexual health involves an essential dimension of health care, which includes reproductive health, sexual relations, and safe practice. In health facilities, sexual health concerns include sexually transmitted infections (STIs), education on reproduction, family planning, and counselling for sexual health issues. However, running such a sensitive and complex department requires the state-of-the-art technology that can promise confidentiality, precision, and smooth operations. Cellma is our electronic medical records software, the high-tech HIMS, designed especially for healthcare providers as well as patients. When patient records are digitised with automated workflows and modules available in the sexual health field, Cellma is changing departments’ workplace ways in sexual health. 

 

Continue reading the blog to discover how Cellma, our electronic medical records software helps in sexual health department management. 
 
Relevant challenges with the department facing the sexual health in UK range from patient confidentiality, accurate record-keeping to effectively handling large numbers. Sexual health services are crucial. Numbers and statistics demonstrate the rise in demands for comprehensive sexual health care.  
 
According to the UK Government, in 2023, UK saw a spike in the number of reported STI cases.  With a 4.7% rise from the previous year, new diagnoses jumped from 383,789 to a hefty 401,800. Gonorrhoea cases jumped up as well, increasing by 7.5%, rising from 79,268 cases in 2022 to 85,223 in 2023. With a 9.4% boost, syphilis diagnoses have reached 9,513 diagnoses up from 8,693.  
 
It is a reminder for everyone to stay informed, stay safe, and keep health at the top of the checklist! 
 

Common challenges in sexual health departments include:  
Patient Confidentiality: Safeguarding patient privacy and sensitive health information is crucial yet challenging in traditional paper-based systems. 
Resource Limitations: Departments often face staffing limitations, impacting service quality and efficiency. 
High Patient Volume: A high patient volume requires effective management that ensures the diversification of needs and is apt to not cause long wait times, thus improving the patient experience.  
Documentation: Manual documentation is a very time-consuming process and also probable to make errors.  
Digital Management: Most of the cases involve follow-up and follow-through; hence most follow-up is hectic to monitor unless managed digitally. 

How Cellma Revolutionises Sexual Health Department Management:

As the leading electronic medical records software, Cellma provides an integrated electronic means of managing patient data, automating workflows, and, respectively, ensuring better communication between healthcare professionals and their patients.  

Here’s how Cellma directly aids in the sexual health department: 

Electronic Patient Records (EPR) module:  
In the Electronic Patient Records module of Cellma, information pertaining to a patient can be stored in one location, thereby keeping it safe. This module allows health care providers to record structured consultations with the patient; their medical histories; made diagnoses; treatment plans; and follow-up notes. This, therefore, is significantly important in an area like sexual health where information must be restricted to just the right personnel only and all those risks that accompany paper records. Only the personnel with appropriate role access can have direct access to patients’ information and the opportunity to review past treatments, test results, and previous consults for truly timely decisions in appointments. 
 

Patient Administration System (PAS) module: 
The PAS module in Cellma makes the process of registration fast and efficient; it manages patient appointments, check-in, and waiting lists for departments to take large volumes of patients. As large number of patients pass through some specific points of the day in departments, PAS automates various administrative tasks that free the time of staff to focus on urgent issues relating to the patients. In addition, a patient who requires follow-up can be monitored through PAS to maintain continuity in care.  

Document Management Module:  
Sexual health department have tons of paperwork: consent forms, treatment summaries, etc. Cellma’s document management module allows these documents to be administered electronically, from where authorised personnel can access them, upload, retrieve, or even update them without needing any physical storage space; all this would bring down clutter in a room, providing so much transparency and engagement with patients.  

E-Pharmacy 
The module streamlines the prescription process for patients who need treatment through medication with STIs or other sexual health-related complaints. The Cellma’s E-Pharmacy module enables doctors to send prescriptions electronically such that the patient may retrieve them at the associated pharmacies. It eases medication processes, saves time, and ensures that the patients may start their treatments promptly. 

Lab Module: 
This module streamlines the whole process of diagnostic testing with full integration between the patient record and lab results, direct assistance for sexual health departments conducting high volumes of STI screens, HIV tests, and other diagnostics in an orderly workflow from order placement to result entry. Because lab results are automatically linked to the electronic record of a patient as soon as they become available, wait times are lowered and so is the likelihood of lost paper. Results can be immediately accessed by healthcare providers for immediate discussion with patients and thus, prompt and informed decisions regarding treatment. 

Imaging Module; 
Cellma’s imaging module is designed to be used within the departments of diagnostic imaging for accurate assessments, such as ultrasound or radiology services often required in reproductive health settings. The imaging module integrates directly with the imaging devices and systems and allows the healthcare providers to view and review the diagnostic images right there within the electronic record of the patient. 

Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) module: 
Cellma’s MDT module enables comprehensive treatment of complicated cases through frictionless collaboration among teams consisting of healthcare providers with different specialties while developing an integrated treatment plan. Sexual health departments often pose a case that requires coordinated care. This module supports case reviews, and easy documentation to enable holistic, time-effective patient care. With streamlined teamwork, the MDT module enhances communication, so there is minimal delay and further improved outcomes for patients. 

Reporting Module:  
Sexual health department needs proper data analysis and reporting about current operations. The Reporting and Analytics module within Cellma allows one to know demographics about patients, treatment outcomes, and resource utilisation. This is important in identifying trends, understanding what the patient needs are, and improving service delivery based on data-driven decisions. 

Patient Portal 
Patient portal of Cellma empowers patients as they get to access all their health information, lab results through the portal. The portal also allows online appointment booking, communication with the healthcare providers, and reminders about future appointments or follow-ups. Access to health information at home is a big convenience and encourages patients to be more active in health management, thus enhancing treatment adherence and satisfaction. 

Referral Portal: 
Sexual health care might sometimes require coordination with other health providers to become an all-rounded kind of care. The referral portal by Cellma has easier referral management thus allowing the healthcare provider to refer patients to specialists or external facilities when necessary. Cellma ensures that the patient receives well-rounded care while ensuring that providers can track referrals without making manual follow-ups.  

Managing sexual health services is not an easy job, with high volumes of patients and sensitive data, and requiring quick, accurate diagnosis. Cellma offers a true holistic package by integrating digital patient record, seamless appointment scheduling, integration with laboratories, patient portals, and many more-all designed to answer the requirements and needs of sexual health departments. This helps the healthcare professionals to offer their patients high-quality, compassionate care while receiving convenient accessible services from a dedicated tailormade module.  

Take your department to the next step in becoming more efficient and patient centred.  
 

Book a free demo today with Cellma and learn how our electronic medical records software can revolutionise the sexual health management in your facility. 

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