NEWS2 is the latest version of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), first produced in 2012 and updated in December 2017, which advocates a system to standardise the assessment and response to acute illness.
Digital NEWS2 Chart
This blog discusses our journey to develop and implement a digital NEWS2 chart. This covers some of the design decisions we made in implementing the national guidance and lessons learned along the way.
I have made the digital NEWS2 chart available as an open source project on Github should others wish to contribute to the project (further details below) and implement it in their own electronic patient record EPR.
Reflections of a CCIO 