Not currently functioning (February 2018)

This is a function that we would like to introduce in due course, but as at Spring 2018 we do not yet recommend it; further work is required to optimise the way downloads using the ambit "theme" behave and to guard against accidental re-uploads if patient-sensitive data has been added to a downloaded version of the manual. (See also DataSecurity).

Interactive Case Recording

This refers to the use of a downloaded version of your local AMBIT manual as a part of the clinical record - one which can act as a "thinking scratchpad", which can also export any notes you make within it to the formal medical record. This occurs either by printing out the Client notes, or via data export in the form of a "csv" file (this is a particular kind of simple file that allows data to be filed away in the appropriate places within a larger database.)

Why bother?

The advantage of using the manual for interactive case recording is that the worker is constantly placed very close to manualized material, and, because of the nature of the software, notes can be very easily integrated, sorted, searched, tagged etc... so that the information they contain is much more likely to be accessed in relation to salient concerns/facts.

Trying it out

Go to Download a copy! and start by practising with a downloaded copy of the manual. Teams need to make a formal decision to use the manual in this way, and this will include attention to the Rituals and Disciplines that govern DataSecurity.

The ICR tag

This tag collects the most interactive parts of the manual together, which may or may not be relevant for a team member. Because this is an experimental technology using the manual in this is an 'optional extra' at this stage.

Technical bit...

It is expected that a personalised TiddlyManual would live "within" the secure access areas of digital records systems in the NHS (secure server, or even in the National 'digital spine'; it is just a single html file, after all - see DataSecurity) and so could integrate with these large 'top-down' I.T. systems and yet allow room for sensitive local attunements. Planned developments will allow "one-click" transfer of client-specific data into digital recording systems, similar to the 'print out Client notes' facility that already exists.