MiRecord
Empowering Maternity Care with Digital Innovation. Supporting clinicians, enhancing safety, and improving mothers’ choice.
MiRecord is the new, digital version of the Perinatal Institute’s maternity notes. It preserves the tradition of mother-centered care with up-to-date information on available choices, while assisting clinicians with care pathways and prompts for risk assessment, review and referral where appropriate.
MiRecord is more than just a digital maternity record—it’s a complete care companion. Designed clinically-led with a streamlined, easy to navigate user interface, with the relevant information available when you need it. With a slick, intuitive design and workflow, it supports clinicians’ time management for safe and effective care.
With risk assessment prompts, offline access, and integration with GROW 2.0 fetal growth monitoring module for joined-up care, MiRecord supports safe, informed, and personalised care at every stage of the maternity journey.
In modern maternity care, timing, communication, and precision are everything. Across the NHS, clinicians strive to deliver safe, efficient, and compassionate care in often complex and fast-paced environments. Technology has a crucial role to play in supporting this mission—and at the heart of this digital shift lies MiRecord, a purpose-built digital maternity record system developed by Harlow Solutions and the Perinatal Institute.
More than just a replacement for paper notes, MiRecord is a clinically-led digital platform designed specifically to reflect and enhance how maternity care is delivered across the UK. From its risk assessment logic to offline capability and full interoperability with NHS systems, MiRecord offers a practical, patient-focused solution to the challenges of today’s maternity services.
In this article, we explore what makes MiRecord stand out, how it supports clinicians and patients alike, and why it’s emerging as the digital standard for UK maternity units.
MiRecord is a comprehensive digital maternity information system. It allows NHS clinicians to access and update a woman’s complete maternity record in real-time, whether on a hospital ward, in the community, or at a patient’s home. It also provides secure access to the mother herself, allowing her to stay informed and engaged throughout her pregnancy journey.
Importantly, MiRecord is co-developed by clinical experts. It builds upon the trusted foundation of the Perinatal Institute’s printed maternity notes—used by thousands of NHS professionals, and brings that legacy into the digital age with precision, security, and usability at its core.
One of the defining features of MiRecord is that it was not built as a generic EHR add-on. Instead, it has been developed from the ground up in collaboration with practising midwives, obstetricians, and maternity support workers. This ensures that the system reflects actual clinical workflows—not an idealised version, but one grounded in day-to-day practice.
Intuitive navigation – Simple layouts mean less time spent searching for information.
Prompted care logic – Embedded clinical logic provides reminders and alerts based on the information entered.
Templates that follow national guidance – Aligns with UK standards and helps maintain high-quality, consistent documentation.
Audit trails and compliance – Every decision and update is logged for transparency and review.
MiRecord doesn’t just document care, it helps guide it.
Pregnancy is a deeply personal journey, and MiRecord recognises that mothers are key partners in their own care. With secure access to their digital notes, women can:
Review appointment schedules
Track milestones and growth
See results and care plans
Feel more prepared for birth
This level of transparency fosters trust between patients and healthcare providers, and supports the NHS ambition of personalised care that involves the individual in every decision.
Risk assessment is fundamental to safe maternity care. MiRecord features automated prompts that alert clinicians when values fall outside of normal parameters. These may include:
Elevated blood pressure
Missed antenatal checks
Growth deviations
Symptoms needing urgent review
By surfacing these concerns in real-time, MiRecord enables timely referrals, additional tests, or further discussion, helping avoid missed opportunities for early intervention.
In environments where clinical teams are stretched, these subtle nudges make a powerful difference.
Another core strength of MiRecord is how seamlessly it works with other NHS systems. It supports bidirectional data exchange, allowing information to flow freely between MiRecord and:
Laboratory systems
Hospital patient record systems (EHRs)
Appointment booking platforms
Local Trust-specific platforms
This reduces duplication, avoids transcription errors, and ensures that everyone working with a patient or midwife, obstetrician, GP, or community nurse—is on the same page.
Many maternity professionals work in mobile settings, community clinics, home visits, or rural practices, where consistent internet access is not always guaranteed. MiRecord solves this problem by offering full offline functionality.
Records can be downloaded in advance.
Data entry can continue as normal, even offline.
Once reconnected, the system syncs with central records.
This means care continues without disruption, even in low-connectivity environments.
MiRecord aligns with several NHS goals and frameworks, including:
The NHS Long Term Plan – particularly digital-first approaches and personalisation
Better Births – MiRecord supports continuity of carer and safe, informed decision-making
Digital Maternity Record Standards (DMRS) – built to align with SNOMED and national data-sharing expectations
It’s a platform that doesn’t just meet today’s expectations, it’s built to support tomorrow’s.
MiRecord is already in use across NHS Trusts and maternity units. The system has been piloted and deployed in various settings, showing its flexibility and adaptability. Its growing footprint is a testament to its usability and the confidence it inspires among both patients and professionals.
Healthcare teams report:
Reduced reliance on paper
Fewer duplicate entries
Improved handovers and continuity
Better engagement from mothers
And because the system was co-developed with the Perinatal Institute, it incorporates the latest in maternity clinical best practice.
In a regulated environment like the NHS, audit readiness and compliance are non-negotiable. MiRecord includes full audit trails and reporting tools that support:
Service evaluations
Quality improvement initiatives
Responses to CQC inspections
Clinical governance reviews
Every entry in the system is timestamped and traceable, making reviews easier and strengthening transparency.
Deploying a new digital platform in healthcare requires care, training, and ongoing support. MiRecord understands this and provides:
Structured onboarding and training
Continuous user support
Feedback loops for clinical teams
System updates shaped by real-world usage
From small-scale pilots to large Trust-wide rollouts, MiRecord has proven its ability to scale effectively.
MiRecord is powered by a partnership between two trusted organisations:
Harlow Solutions – A UK-based specialist in NHS-ready technology with over 30 years of experience. Harlow also supports iGROW, an electronic growth charting tool used widely across the NHS.
Perinatal Institute – A leading centre for maternity safety, research, and education. Their expertise in clinical risk, guidelines, and fetal growth surveillance has shaped MiRecord’s clinical backbone.
You can read more about the team here.
MiRecord stands out not just because it’s digital, but because it’s human. It understands maternity. It understands how teams work and how information should flow. It empowers clinicians, supports mothers, and meets the NHS’s digital ambitions with confidence.
If your maternity unit is still relying on paper or siloed digital systems, MiRecord represents an evidence-based step forward.
MiRecord isn’t just a system—it’s a smarter way of working. It delivers safer, more connected, and more personalised maternity care across all settings. With features that serve both clinicians and mothers, and design driven by real-world practice, it’s a trusted platform already improving outcomes across the NHS.
If your Trust is exploring digital maternity solutions, MiRecord is more than worth your attention, it’s leading the way.
MiRecord is a digital maternity record system designed for NHS use, offering real-time updates, offline access, patient transparency, and clinical risk prompts. Learn how MiRecord improves safety and patient experience.
Developed to enhance seamless care, MiRecord has offline functionality for areas where connectivity is poor. It can be used dynamically across all care settings. It also has the ability to share care with other individual Trusts or a whole network as required.
MiRecord syncs effortlessly with hospital Electronic Health Records (EHR), granting your care team immediate access to the latest updates, test results, and comprehensive medical histories. This robust integration reduces paperwork and delays, enabling more efficient, informed decision-making and ensuring consistent, high-quality care—supporting a truly paperless journey.
Interoperable and hosted on NHS-secured networks with ISO27001-certified encryption, ensuring data security and compliance. MiRecord also improves safety through reporting capabilities, ensuring compliance to national requirements, and through continuous learning. It also benefits from a full UI audit trail for local monitoring.
The digitisation of healthcare records has revolutionised patient care, and in maternity services, MiRecord leads this transformation. This digital maternity information system is designed to support clinicians and empower mothers, ensuring a seamless and secure care experience.
MiRecord is a digital platform that replaces traditional maternity notes, providing a comprehensive, secure, and accessible record system. Developed collaboratively by Harlow Solutions and the Perinatal Institute, MiRecord is tailored to meet the unique needs of maternity care.
Implementing MiRecord in maternity services leads to:
MiRecord represents a significant advancement in maternity care, combining technological innovation with patient-centred design. Its adoption not only streamlines clinical operations but also enhances the overall patient experience, marking a pivotal step towards modernised, efficient, and compassionate maternity services.
MiRecord is a next-generation maternity information system designed to support safer and more effective care. With a clinically-led design and mother-centred approach to care, communication between clinicians and expectant mothers is enhanced. Its intuitive interface assists clinicians with care pathways for an improved care experience.
