Benefits of the Map of Medicine
The Map offers high quality clinical information visualised in 390 patient pathways. It serves as a single healthcare knowledge source that will speed the delivery of evidence based best practice across healthcare organisations.
Key Benefits
- supports healthcare planning
- easy to localise and represent pathways for health or social care
- enables demand management including getting the right information to GPs to achieve correct referrals
- facilitates coordination between health and social care
- helps deliver 18 or 26 week wait
- provides knowledge support
- helps meet clinical governance standards
- saves time re-inventing content, guidance and searching for the latest evidence
- supports professional training and development
- designed to improve patient care, the Map is a vital component of a Healthcare IT programme as appropriate clinical actions are triggered directly from the interface
To find out more, visit the early adopters page or or contact the Map of Medicine at info@mapofmedicine.com
A clinical benchmark for healthcare
The Map of Medicine is an evidence-based benchmark for clinical processes that supports the configuration of services, local commissioning and clinical practice across care settings.
Support for clinical practice
The Map of Medicine is described as a "refresher" by experienced clinicians and as an invaluable knowledge resource for junior doctors, locum staff and multi-disciplinary teams.
Designed by clinicians from the outset, the distilled, visual flow of the Map of Medicine pathways provide quick access as a reference source or to share with patients at the point of care.
Broad content coverage
The Map of Medicine currently includes clinical information from 28 specialties organised over 390 pathways and equivalent to over 6000 printed pages.
Pathways include clinical knowledge across the patient journey from diagnosis to treatment, providing a single resource across primary and secondary care settings.
Evidence based content
The Map of Medicine is a distillation of recognised international sources of clinical evidence and guidance that are systematically searched and reviewed by information specialists working with experienced clinicians.
Clinical experience is also incorporated through expert review by a large network of external clinicians employed by public sector healthcare organisations.
National, local and personal
The Map of Medicine addresses clinical governance by making the development and sharing of local guidelines and care pathways fast and efficient. The Map of Medicine combines, in a single solution, national and local information to provide all staff with a single source of personal best practice.
Integrated into the clinical workflow
We are working with clinical systems providers to make the Map of Medicine accessible from a range of clinical systems and provide quick access to actions in those systems.
The Map of Medicine can provide a first port of call for healthcare providers and answer a range of clinical questions through partnerships with 3rd party information providers.
Easy to implement
The Map of Medicine and the Map Management Suite is available entirely as a web application; it is time efficient to set up on a wide range of IT infrastructure and is easily accessed from hospital, home and surgery.
The Map of Medicine's simple user interface also means that there is little training necessary.
