Day case procedures are increasing. As well as reduced costs to the hospitals, patients benefit by being able to recover at home. In 2012 in Ireland 69% of elective surgery was treated on a day case basis. Sinead Kane who has a background in both nursing and health informatics talks about the advantages of Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) and how tailored EMR's such as Vitro can benefit ICPs. She also looks at the next steps to move from paper to an EMR in day surgery...