There are many installations of ICE Desktop order communications that follow, rightly so, a traditional pattern of configuration, placing standard tests in a convenient format for quick access – and that’s it.

But occasionally when imagination takes over up comes a configuration of ICE that reveals the flexibility of the software and its ability to present a service in a novel way. For an example of this you could do no better than admire the wristband print facility configured by North Bristol NHS Trust ….. 10,001 of them produced so far and still counting!

When Rachael Hoare became responsible for implementing the ICE system at North Bristol she identified an opportunity to set an order in ICE Requesting to print demographic details to a wristband template. And that’s what she went ahead and did!

Rachael set up a special requesting page holding the single order “Print Wristband”. Since all patient demographics are passed to ICE from PAS, upon selecting the test and validating in the normal way, the order can be processed as an instruction to a special wristband printer to run off the finished article ready for wearing – the picture below tells it all. The current print rate is almost 2,000 wristbands per week.

If you have any imaginative uses of ICE order communications do let us know.