Access Rio is a future-proof electronic patient record (EPR) system for community health, mental health and child health providers. Trusted by thousands of NHS clinicians, Rio EPR gives you a single, connected view of every patient.
Manage clinical and administrative processes in one place, across every care setting, and give your teams the information they need to deliver safer, more personalised care.
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The cost of electronic health records
The cost of electronic health records can be the deciding factor whether or not to buy a solution; regardless of the benefits such software will have on patients or clients. These solutions aren’t cheap, it’s true, but it’s a classic case of you get what you pay for: buying an electronic health record (EHR) is an investment that will have longer term benefits, and it’s on an organisation to perform analysis to determine whether there are cost benefits as well as care benefits for them to onboard an EHR software.
EHR systems: electronic health records explained
The electronic health record (EHR) system is an integral part of any hospital management system. Electronic health records are a necessity for healthcare organisations to be able to quickly access and update patient information, or to communicate key data with other care providers. Digital solutions offer crucial accuracy and speed for clinicians to ensure optimal treatment.
With Rio Observations, nurses no longer need to record observations on paper charts or manually calculate early warning scores. Records are created, accessed and updated at the point of care, reducing clinical risk and eliminating errors from hand-written notes.
Vital signs and observations are stored instantly on the patient's clinical record, so the most up-to-date information is always available to the whole care team. This makes it easier to prioritise patients by risk, respond quickly to deterioration and ensure every patient receives the right treatment at the right time.
Rio Order Communications gives clinicians a fully digitised system for requesting tests and procedures, tracking progress and accessing results, all within one easy-to-use platform. By removing paper-based ordering and manual chasing, clinicians can focus on interpreting results and making informed decisions rather than navigating administrative delays.
With results available instantly and securely within the patient record, care teams have the complete picture they need to act quickly and confidently, improving both patient safety and clinical efficiency.
Rio ePMA replaces paper-based prescribing with a fully digital system for prescribing, verifying and administering medication. Because patients have a single, overarching record in Rio, their prescription and administration history stays with them as they move across the organisation, reducing the risk of duplication, omission or misinterpretation.
The module helps clinical teams work more efficiently and safely, ensuring the correct medication information is always available at the point of care and significantly reducing the likelihood of costly prescribing errors.
Rio Integration Hub is a cloud-based interoperability platform that enables secure, real-time data sharing across care settings. Where data sharing has traditionally relied on manual access and duplicate data entry, the Integration Hub automates this process, reducing inaccuracies and freeing up clinical and administrative time.
By connecting Rio with other systems and mobile applications, the Integration Hub supports a truly integrated approach to patient care, giving every team involved in a patient's journey access to the information they need, when they need it.
Access Rio supports the vision of every patient having one, fully integrated, electronic health record (EHR) to enable the very best and most efficient healthcare.
A leading electronic patient record system for secondary care, it operates across mental health, child health and community care settings and interoperates easily with other systems.
AccessRio manages both administrative and clinical processes and can be tailored to your organisation’s specific needs.
Our Rio EPR system was developed in collaboration with many healthcare experts. Today, it’s trusted by thousands of healthcare professionals to improve quality of care, clinical safety and patient experience, while also increasing efficiency on a restricted budget.
When looking to replace its existing Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust had ambitions to improve its quality of care, clinical safety, patient experience and productivity.
Using our Rio solution, Pathfinder has been able to digitise their records; assisting in making it easy to evidence the care provided so statutory reporting, including CQC regulatory submissions, are quick and easy - helping develop a holistic care approach in the process.
The Access Group, with Rio EPR, is operating in partnership with WoundMatrix to improve patient care at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. We are bridging the gap between our electronic patient record and a specialist injury assessment tool, ensuring the most accurate patient records, better care management, and the most appropriate treatment.
One centralised Electronic Patient Record (EPR), accessible across multiple care settings, is helping to provide better, safer, patient-centred care at Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
A centralised electronic patient record has helped to give a clear view of each patient’s health at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We’ve been working with the Access Group for a number of years and it’s great to have an EPR vendor that’s willing to listen and change to work in a new way. They’re actually listening to the NHS and developing solutions for the NHS.
Umesh Gadhvi, Chief Digital Information Officer
he beauty of being able to transfer the data directly back into the Rio record seamlessly has been essential to what we’re doing. It’s gone down really well with our staff and we’ve done a lot of work around usage of forms which has aided uptake and improved engagement. It’s made quite a difference.
Andrea Grace, Chief Clinical Information Officer
The Rio demo left me feeling full of enthusiasm and hope. The system is really easy to navigate and includes many key features that we have been looking for, for a long time. It's going to be so transformative for our services
Trace Bruce, Head of Community and Crisis
Rio will elevate us from processing time-consuming adequate records, to providing a high standard, fully integrated service user system.
David Lackenby, Service Manager, Registered Services
The most exciting thing I thought came from today’s session is the speed, flexibility and configurability of the reporting on Rio, it will save so many hours of work.
Laura Reed, Service Manager, Community and Crisis
The system has proven to be very user-friendly and intuitive. In the clinical portal, for example, we can get access to all the information we need about the patient quickly and securely.
Carolyn Holmes, Head of Informatics
Rio has provided our teams and clients with immediate benefits: all information is there at the point of care and support we give to children and their families.
We have an entirely end-to-end solution with the Rio EPR. We’re already seeing improved interoperability between internal systems due to the flow of data the system provides.
Donna Conway, Head of IT Projects
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