Datix Limited

Datix Limited is headquartered in London, England and has an office in Chicago, USA. Datix produces web-based patient safety software for healthcare risk management applications.

The application is widely used by staff including clinicians in the British National Health Service to report clinical incidents.[1] Staff are trained in using Datix as part of an NHS trust’s mandatory and statutory training.[2] The system can even be used by paramedics, and if necessary entries can be made by telephone. [3] The system can be used to manage incident reporting, complaints, claims, requests for information, safety alerts and risk.[4]

Serco Health implemented Datix web-based incident and risk management software at various healthcare organisations and seven prisons throughout the UK.[5]

East London NHS Foundation Trust introduced changes to its Datix system for incident reporting in 2014 to make it more useful. It now gives feedback to the original reporter about actions taken to address their concerns, and there are dashboards in Datix to allow services to view trends in incidents over time, and integrate incident data with other quality data, which staff can access from any computer.[6]

Data from the system can form the basis of academic research into patient safety issues.[7]

The North West Commissioning Support Unit offers a Datix managed solution to NHS organisations.

References

  1. ↑ "Datix reporting". Nursing Times. 8 August 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "'Aim of documentation should be to assist with patient care'". Nursing Times. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Ecuyer, Phil (28 October 2011). "I`m not filling in a DATIX". East England Ambulance Service Unison. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "NHS Grampian uses Datix for innovative patient safety framework". Healthtech Wire. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Serco Health steps up clinical governance using Datix patient safety software". Sourcewire. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Case studies: how to give staff safe space to speak out". Health Service Journal. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Irwin, Amy (23 June 2011). "Retrospective analysis of DATIX dispensing error reports from Scottish NHS hospitals". International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 19 (6): 417–423. doi:10.1111/j.2042-7174.2011.00136.x. Retrieved 17 October 2014.

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