Title: An acute knee injury: tracking a two-year recovery online

Authors: Clare F. Taylor; Daniel H. Williams

Addresses: c/o Secretary to Mr. D. Williams, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Cornwall Hospital (RCH), Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3LJ, UK ' Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Cornwall Hospital (RCH), Truro, Cornwall TR1 3LJ, UK

Abstract: Current government policy aims to deliver high quality healthcare by recording accurate data at the point of giving care, storing it efficiently and displaying it in a format, which is easily interpreted by healthcare professionals and patients. Few published reports describe the benefits of collecting and reporting such data from the point of view of the patient. We report the case of a 62-year-old lorry driver who used a web-based system to track patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) following an acute knee injury to full recovery over a 24-month period. The system reports clinical outcome scores in real-time to the patient and their medical team, clearly illustrating and enhancing recovery from injury. This case reveals how local software meets the needs of the individual patient linking and integrating such local systems must be the future focus of eHealth within the NHS to release the benefits presented by the information revolution.

Keywords: acute knee injury; information revolution; patient reported outcome measures; electronic PROMs; electronic healthcare; e-health; online tracking; recovery tracking; national PROMs program; electronic data collection; Oxford knee score; patient perspective; web-based tracking; NHS; National Health Service; UK; United Kingdom.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2015.071636

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2015 Vol.8 No.1, pp.1 - 8

Received: 29 Nov 2013
Accepted: 28 Aug 2014
Published online: 08 Sep 2015 *

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