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April newsletter - Kinesis, SharePoint 2010, HC2011 and some SL8 hints and tips 
Dear colleague There's also some information about the ever-impressive software that is SharePoint 2010, our trip to Birmingham for the HC2011 conference and exhibition, and some of the new projects we're excitied to be working on. In the mean time, please look over the interesting new information we have about SharePoint 2010, events we're planning or have taken part in, and our Zoostorm SL8 hints, tips and shortcuts. We stress it everytime, but we don't like to send emails that you may not want to receive; you can Unsubscribe very easily. Best wishes Team Cloud2 On average, outpatient referrals across the country have risen by as much as 13% during 2008/09
, with many referrals made because the GP merely wishes to seek advice. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that up to 65% of patients attending outpatient specialty clinics are discharged with no significant pathology being detected and these referrals could be considerably reduced, for a proportion of patients, by timely access to specialist advice rather than by referral. Our conversations with commissioners has repeatedly highlighted the challenges of inappropriate referrals and using Kinesis in this way is very exciting. For more information, read or download our in-depth Kinesis fact sheet. One NHS region that we are involved with generated over 1.8 million GP referrals during 2008/09, resulting in over 1.5 million new patient attendances. This represents approximately 4,178 referrals per day. Referrals into just 6 of those specialties: trauma & orthopaedics; cardiology, nephrology, gastroenterology, rheumatology and neurology represents approximately 20% of total referrals into all specialties and generated over 331,000 new attendances. The cost of each of these referrals ranged from £135 - £385 per appointment. Reducing referrals by 20% across these 6 specialties alone could save that region over £10 million per year. Even based on a 5% reduction in referrals this still represents a significant cost saving of over £2.5million in the first year. No financial assessment of the other benefits has been modelled at this point, however we expect substantial benefits to accrue from shorter time to treatment and better management of the outpatient appointments. Benefits of using Kinesis for referral avoidance There are significant benefits for GPs, patients, PCTs, Acute Trusts and the Health economy as a whole, which include:
A similar but more limited concept has been developed and implemented in a number of organisations including NHS City and Hackney who have utilised a referral management centre. This has delivered a 17% reduction in referrals where the specialities have been added to the service catalogue. The service provided for NHS City and Hackney is an ‘off-line’ service, with limited availability. 
Kinesis has been designed to be extremely simple to use, requiring minimal training and no installation; it runs entirely in a browser over the secure N3 network. It is designed to do some relatively simple things very easily so that the technology does not get in the way of the process. Kinesis provides the following:
A number of further features are currently under development, including SMS alerting and a secure message store which sits alongside Kinesis and provides facilities for users without secure e-mail etc. Kinesis has many other applications. Trusts are talking to us about using it as a general instant messaging tool. It is very simple to use and doesn't require deployment to the desktop and is cheaper than others secure solutions. Other trusts have expressed an interest in using it with their On Call clinical teams or for supporting broader collaboration or support across the trust or across the region. Kinesis also has an application in the primary sector directly with patients, third party suppliers of services and more. Whenever you need somebody in a hurry Kinesis allows you to find them, talk to them, rate them and ensure the activity is tracked for project or billing purposes if needed. Please contact us if you require further information. We constantly update our website with the latest news on SharePoint 2010 becasue we think it's important for our clients and customers to know what it is we use, and what it's benefits are. You can find all the latest details on our website or on our tech blog which is updated regularly called Head in the Clouds. Rather than listing all the top features and highlights here (it would honestly take hours to scroll through) here is the link to the relevant page on our website where you can browse through the specs at will. In it we've noted the new Ribbon interface, as well as Silverlight, Visio, BCM and Rich Media Support, to name but a few. Top 10 benefits of SharePoint Workspace 2010
For much more information, visit our dedicated SharePoint Workspace 2010 page. We recently took part in the HC2011 exhibition and conference in Birmingham - a change to the usual Harrogate location, but no change in the quality of the show. It helped us meet an impressive number of interesting people, and showed us that the health sector really is serious about changing it's attitudes towards ICT. With so many exciting and incredibly useful applications and software designed to make working in the health industry easier and more efficient, we're proud to say that our services are much sought-after. It's really encouraging when people seek us out for a chat when so many larger organisations are ready and waiting. Thank you to everyone who came. Zoostorm SL8 - Hints, tips and shortcuts Fixing a small/awkward on-screen keyboard Touch screen accuracy CTRL + ALT + DEL Our tips on how to correctly utilise Ctrl-Alt-Del: * Firstly, configure the SL8 to use the windows accessibility keyboard for logon. Did you know that if you hold your finger over the hot key (light sensor) on the top left hand corner of the bezel, and hold down the power button for 2-3 seconds this does ‘ctrl-alt-del’? That's about all we can fit in this month. Next month we'll be talking more about our recent project wins, AvePoint, DocAve and some exciting new mini-events that we'll be hosting over the summer. Have a brilliant bank holiday!
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