Adoption of Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs)

ICPs - also known as care profiles or protocols, determine locally agreed (multidisciplinary) healthcare practice, based on guidelines and evidence (where available) for a specific patient group. In Healthcare@Home, we have built a portal to support the various phases of the Wales Diabetes NSF. This portal is intended for use by clinicians enacting the care pathway and acts as a decision support tool aiding clinical staff to deliver the appropriate treatment / intervention to a patient given their current medical condition. Adoption of ICPs enables consistency in provision of medical care across multiple clinical sites.

ICP for Type 2 Diabetes (Figure portions copyright Diabetes UK)

Our research has aimed to capture the salient aspects of the care pathway through the use of decision support screens such as the one shown below.

A typical management screen from the clinician's portal for stage 8 of the ICP