Electronic health records for care homes: what to look for before choosing

July 10, 2026

Electronic health records have been standard in hospitals and health centres for years, but a care home has different needs: it isn't about isolated episodes, but about continuously following the same resident over months or years.

Continuity, not isolated episodes

In a care home, what matters isn't just a single event — a fall, a medication change — but how that resident evolves over time. A system built for care homes should show that full evolution without having to dig through documents sorted by date.

The whole team, in one record

Medication, vital signs, incidents, falls, pressure ulcers and hospital admissions should all live in the same resident file, not spread across different applications that nobody has time to check all of during a shift.

Access according to who needs it

  • Clinical staff need to see the full clinical detail.
  • Management needs an overview, not necessarily every single entry.
  • Reception and general staff shouldn't have access to clinical data that isn't relevant to their role.

Good access profiles aren't just a matter of convenience: they're how each piece of clinical data is seen only by whoever needs to see it.

At Resiges, each resident's clinical record brings together medication, vital signs, falls, pressure ulcers, hospital admissions and clinical evolution in one place, with access according to each user's profile.