The Welsh Information Solution for Diabetes Management (WISDM) system is now live in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) Central.
It had been launched in BCUHB West in December 2023.
WISDM is accessed via the Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP) and used to support diabetes care by consultants, nurses, podiatrists, dietitians, obstetricians and gynaecologists as well as health care assistants and administrative staff.
The new deployment has been a collaboration between Digital Health and Care Wales business change, the WISDM project team and the BCUHB digital, data and technology team.
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Mandy Rees-Saunders, diabetes specialist podiatrist for BCUHB, said: “I was absolutely delighted to see we would be able to write our clinical notes on a system that is accessed by more than one service.
“WCP is the nearest thing we have to a universal system to see tests, information and results for different services all in one place, so it makes sense we can put our diabetes clinical notes where other services can see it, especially where we refer to other specialisms, and we can see their notes without having to click back between several different systems.
“WISDM is time saving, modern and accessible, making my job a lot easier and allowing me to focus on the clinical aspect going forward in a time poor environment. We’re using an existing system in a more intelligent way.”
The system is to be rolled out across the rest of North Wales over this year.
