EHR Systems in Acute Care: The Cellma Advantage

In acute care, every second matters. Yet, healthcare teams working across hospitals still face fragmented data, paper-based documentation, and fragmented communication which all contribute to unnecessarily slow critical decision-making. Between 2022 and 2023, hospitals in England had 16.4 million finished admission episodes, 2.6% more than the previous year. In April 2025, A&E departments recorded 396,900 emergency admissions, or about 13,200 admissions per day. Nearly 40% of patients waited longer than four hours before being admitted or discharged. 

With increasing demand on the emergency services and increased pressure on acute wards, delays in information transfer and disconnected clinical systems represent a significant bottleneck. According to NHS England, over 40% of delays in acute admissions relate to missing or fragmented patient data, and/or poor interoperability between systems. The need for improved EHR Systems in Acute Care, to connect each step of a patient’s journey, triage-admission-discharge, has never been more urgent. 

CellmaEHR is the comprehensive, clinically intelligent solution to support patient flow, documentation, and diagnostics at speed, safety, and enable seamless integration to the NHS. CellmaEHR is the solution of choice for trusts who need to deliver coordinated, quality acute care.  

Aligned to the NHS Vision for Integrated, Connected, and Safer Care  

Cellma aligns with the NHS 10 Year Plan to support a digitally enabled, integrated, patient-centric model of care. Cellma interrogates data and people continuity between hospitals, to neighbourhood care, and virtual wards, to ensure every patient receives the same standard of care, whether this is at home, in their bed or in a hospital bed, wherever is appropriate for their needs.  

Cellma provides healthcare professionals with a single point of access to real time information, enabling timely clinical judgments and coordinated efforts from multidisciplinary teams. It is through the reduction of administrative burden and encouraging collaborative working relationships between acute and community settings, where Cellma fully exemplifies the NHS vision for connected, resilient, and efficient healthcare ecosystems. 

NHS and Global Standards, Integrations, and Datasets  

With NHS and international compliance at its core, CellmaEHR meets every mandated national, local, and global standard needed to support safe, interoperable and efficient delivery of acute care.  

National Digital & Clinical Safety Standards – 

Cellma complies with all essential UK and NHS digital safety frameworks: 

• DCB0129 (manufacturer) and DCB0160 (deployment) for clinical risk management and assurance. 

• Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and UK GDPR for data protection and cybersecurity. 

• Alignment with the NHS Data Protection Act 2018, NHS England Digital Clinical Safety Strategy, and DSP compliance requirements for NHS suppliers. 
  
  

These standards guarantee that every instance of CellmaEHR sustains clinical safety, operational resilience and confidentiality of patient data. 

Interoperability & NHS Integrations 

Cellma is designed to connect seamlessly across the entire NHS ecosystem, and it connects with: 

• NHS Spine, GP Connect and Summary Care Record (SCR) for identity verification and access to key patient information. 

• e-Referral Service (e-RS) for secure and direct management of referrals. 

• Personal Demographics Service (PDS) for accurate identity management and demographic reconciliation. 
  
  

These connections ensure a constant flow of information between hospitals, neighbourhood care centres and virtual ward networks. This supports the overarching NHS vision for improved connected, continuous care. 

Clinical, Technical & Global Standards 

Cellma EHR facilitates compliance with a broad range of NHS and international interoperability standards so that hospitals can be confident of NHS compliance and connecting with international health services and research networks. 

NHS & UK Standards: 

• Use FHIR UK Core, HL7 v2, DICOM, CDA/CCDA, and PRSB eDischarge specifications to exchange structured information. 

• Use standard terminologies, such as SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, dm+d, and OPCS-4, to collect data consistently and in code. 
  
  

Reporting & National Datasets 

CellmaEHR supports easy statutory reporting and audit processes through automated, coded data extraction for NHS datasets, including: 

• Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and SUS (Secondary Uses Service) submissions. 

• Care Quality Commission (CQC) notifications and incident reporting workflows. 

• Infection control datasets, including HCAI surveillance and ICNARC for intensive care audit. 

• National Hip Fracture Database, NCEPOD and mortality reviews for specialty reporting. 

• Also, with connections to population analytics frameworks and FHIR Bulk Data export for research and performance monitoring. 
  
  

Global Healthcare Integration 

Built for global healthcare, enabling connected, patient-centred, and digital-first care anywhere in the world. 

• Built with FHIR and HL7 standards for interoperability with global EHRs and healthcare IT systems. 

• Fully compliant with GDPR, DSPT, and other international data protection frameworks. 

• Connects with national health platforms and telehealth ecosystems worldwide. 

• Scalable for healthcare providers, ministries of health, and private networks across multiple regions. 
  
  

Cellma also supports dataset mapping for ICU registries around the globe as well as WHO Global Health Observatory metrics and clinical trial data capture making it easy for hospitals to ensure they meet external audit and reporting needs, regardless of whether they are NHS related. 

CellmaEHR adheres to NHS and internationally recognised standards, interoperability protocols, and dataset integrations to guarantee full compliance, effective data sharing, and a connected digital ecosystem to improve clinical safety and operational efficiency in every aspect of care.  

How CellmaEHR Delivers Complete Solutions for Acute Care 

Admissions, Transfers & Discharges (ADT): 

Enables real-time visibility of patient admissions, transfers and discharges with live bed state visibility and NHS Number validation to reduce waiting times and improve the flow of patients from point of entry to discharge.  

Clinical Documentation & Decision Support: 

Supports structured ward-round notes, allergies, diagnosis, and treatment plan documentation with clinical decision support built in for sepsis detection, drug interactions, and renal dosing to enable safe and accurate documentation under pressure.  

AI-Enabled Functions 
Leverage predictive analytics for early warning alerts, resource forecasting, and readmission risk analysis. AI-powered triage and pattern recognition support proactive decision-making and operational efficiency. 

Voice-to-Text Documentation 
Enable clinicians to dictate notes directly into patient records, reducing administrative burden and improving accuracy through natural language processing (NLP). 

Observation Monitoring & ICU Integration: 

Integrates with monitoring systems to capture vital signs, NEWS2/EWS scores, and escalation alerts for continuous observation and the early identification of clinical deterioration which improves patient safety.  

Diagnostics, Laboratory & Imaging Integration: 

Integrates with LIS, RIS and PACS to provide instant access to lab, radiology and pathology results, including zero-click image viewing to improve speed of clinical decision making and reduce duplication. 

Pharmacy & Medication Management: 

Offers e-prescribing, CPOE, and eMAR module features to enable full medication workflows. Improves accuracy in medication lists, reduces preventable drug events, and supports antimicrobials management. 

Theatre & Anaesthesia Management: 

Oversees surgical bookings, anaesthetic charts, pre-op and post-op notes, and consumables. Improves theatre efficiency and peri-operative coordination. 

Emergency & Trauma Management: 

Assists with rapid triage, trauma documentation, timestamped events, and escalation alerts to assist with critical decision-making during emergency situations. 

Discharge & Continuity of Care: 

Provides PRSB compliant eDischarge summaries and shares, securely with GPs and community providers, via Cellma Connect to ensure continuity of care outside the hospital setting. 

Bed Management & Patient Flow Dashboards: 

Displays live dashboards of bed occupancy, transfers, and discharge delays, which support an efficient capacity planning process and aim to reduce delays in admissions.  

Communication & Messaging Tools: 

Includes secure internal messaging and integration that allow real-time coordination with multidisciplinary teams and support communication while reducing delays in communications. 

Real-time Analytics & Power BI Dashboards: 

Provides live clinical and operational analytics for length of stay, readmission rates, and infectious control metrics to promote data-driven performance improvement and quality assurance. 

Virtual Ward & Neighbourhood Care Integration: 

Integrates acute care to community settings with virtual wards to support remote patient monitoring and ongoing care continuity and align care with NHS integrated care. 

Document Management: 

Centralises clinical and administrative documentations, such as consent forms, imaging reports, and discharge summaries, and makes the documentation easily retrievable and secure and paperless. 

Audit Trails & Data Governance: 

Full audit log of all actions reported by user with version history and versions retained in historic records. Integrity of the data outcomes are maintained, and it promotes accountability and NHS and global data standards are fulfilled. 

Security and Compliance 

Trust in healthcare underpins data security, clinical safety, and reporting against regulations. Complying with all the necessary UK and NHS standards, Cellma’s EHR Systems in Acute Care are DCB0129, DCB0160, and Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) compliant. Cellma is also ISO 27001 compliant, UK GDPR compliant, and Cyber Essential Plus certified.  

High levels of access control (NHS Smartcard authentication, multiple factor authentication (MFA) and role-based permissions) safeguards sensitive patient information, while complete audit logs, real time threat detection and tested disaster recovery plans means hospitals remain resilient under a cyber threat and during downtime. 

Why CellmaEHR is the Future of Acute Care Management 

With NHS acute care services facing record demand and staff shortages, the need for connected, reliable and easy-to-use digital tools can never be overstated. EHR systems in acute care such as CellmaEHR provide 360-degree visibility to support faster response and improved patient outcomes. 

CellmaEHR integrates virtual ward data, links to neighbourhood care hub services and facilitates national reporting datasets – creating a single healthcare ecosystem and supporting partnered continuity of care across the hospital and community interface.