Archive for November, 2011
One Health Alliance relaunched – EHealthInsider
Monday, November 21st, 2011IMS MAXIMS unveils a new package of IT deployment choices for healthcare providers of all sizes
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011London, UK – IMS MAXIMS has unveiled a new range of deployment models giving customers four ways to access its proven clinical patient administration system (PAS) . The four choices are designed to ensure that healthcare providers of every size, and with very different resources, can all benefit from the best clinical applications and electronic patient record systems.
Shane Tickell, IMS MAXIMS CEO, said: “We spend a lot of time talking to customers and are always looking for new ways to respond to their needs. As a result we fully understand the different capabilities and aspirations across NHS trusts and other healthcare providers. Right now they need a flexible range of options to obtain access to the best possible clinical and administrative IT systems. Our four choices cater for the different sizes, resources and skills available within the ever-growing variety of healthcare providers that exists in the UK and Ireland.
“Customers now have complete freedom to customise their own MAXIMS system in-house or deploy our specialists to configure according to their specifications. Smaller organisations, like independent clinics, with limited IT skills and budgets, can even rent an off-the-shelf software-as-a-service version of MAXIMS. This gives them affordable access to a Choose and Book compliant clinical PAS of the highest standards – vital for winning NHS contracts.”
The four options
- MAXIMS Toolkit: All the essentials for creating and customising your own MAXIMS clinical PAS, in your own time, using your own resources and capabilities.
- MAXIMS Assist: The core MAXIMS systems pre-packaged with essential assessments capability, allowing your own tailoring and enhancements.
- MAXIMS Bespoke: Complete turnkey delivery customised to suit your specifications and requirements and fully-integrated with your existing systems.
- MAXIMS SaaS: Off-the-shelf Choose and Book compliant, software-as-a-service alternative. Sized to the exact number of users it provides a low capital outlay way to benefit from the best in clinical PAS technology.
MAXIMS is at the heart of the clinical and administrative life of everything from large UK and Irish hospitals, to growing specialist independent clinics. It gives patient data to clinicians in exactly the format they need, and allows it to be shared with colleagues and updated in real-time. MAXIMS suits any clinical specialism and is excellent for order communications and reporting. Medical and administrative records can be kept fully up to date, with the minimum of effort. MAXIMS is web-based so there is no need to install software on computers or invest in expensive extra hardware.
Media contact:
Susan Venables
Highland Marketing on behalf of IMS MAXIMS
Phone: +44 (0) 1877 339922 / Mobile: +44 (0) 7971 166936
susanv@highland-marketing.com
About IMS MAXIMS
IMS MAXIMS specialises in developing clinical and administrative software solutions and currently supports more than 100 organisations and 10,000 users of IMS MAXIMS products.
To find out more about IMS MAXIMS and its products visit www.imsmaxims.com, email enquiries@imsmaxims.com or call +44 1908 588800.
NHS IT outlook positive
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011English hospitals are to raise their IT spending in the next three years. The EHI Intelligence 2011 NHS Market Forecast Report predicts that trusts will increase their spend by 3.7%, creating a market worth £883 by 2014-15.
Private firm’s £1bn deal to run NHS hospital
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Hinchingbrooke is to be the first NHS general hospital fully run by a private company. The 10-year deal with Circle is worth £1 billion. The BBC says Circle claims that services will be maintained at the struggling Cambridgeshire hospital.
NHS is best
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011The NHS among the world’s best for chronic and serious illness. The Telegraph says a survey finds that Britons have about the fastest GP access, best co-ordinated care, and fewest medical errors despite spending being the third lowest of the countries surveyed.
Sharper focus needed for cancer research
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Future research into oesophageal cancer should focus on individual therapy strategies such as genetic receptor mutations, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Suppliers partner to support NHS reforms
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011London UK – 14th November 2011 – A group of healthcare technology suppliers have announced that they will work together to provide a one-stop-shop for IT systems to support NHS trusts throughout the NHS reforms.
The One Health Alliance, which was set up to bring best of breed technologies to healthcare organisations in both the public and private sector, has said that its members will collaborate to focus on the UK market in order to provide systems that support the changing landscape.
The Alliance already consists of a wide range of suppliers such as Oracle, Clinical Solutions, Ardentia and Sunquest Information Systems and IMS Maxims who have a considerable market share across areas including decision support, business intelligence, patient administration systems (PAS) and laboratory and diagnostic information.
The group will work together to share best practice and market intelligence following the publication of the white paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, which places a sharp focus on innovation within the NHS, and more recently the NHS Future Forum which calls for less fragmentation.
In addition it will proactively offer the newly formed GP consortia and existing NHS organisations an interoperable, wide-reaching set of solutions to support them through the changes while improving efficiency and patient care.
Tom Humphries, Business Manager at Clinical Solutions and Chairman of the OHA said: “The suppliers for the One Health Alliance have been, and are being, carefully chosen to complement each other through their experience and expertise.
“While competition between suppliers is healthy, the group provides an informal discussion forum outside any specific procurement and looks at ways of working to benefit organisations in the public and private sector.”
According to the One Health Alliance, many new commissioners may have little or no experience of procuring the right IT systems for their organisation.
“It is paramount they know that One Health Alliance suppliers are not only working to discover and address the needs of commissioners at this early stage in the reforms, but also that suppliers are willing to talk and work together for the greater good of the industry,” adds Humphries. “It is this kind of openness that the NHS has been missing for some time.”
The One Health Alliance has started inviting frontline staff, including GPs to come and discuss how the reforms are affecting them and how IT suppliers can react to support their needs.
Dr Richard Fisher, a GP from Swindon said: “The world in which GPs operate is very different to the commercial world.
“Not only was meeting with the One Health Alliance an opportunity to tell suppliers what GPs in my community need and have a interactive discussion about those requirements, but it also enabled me to see the commercial world close-up, something that frontline staff rarely get the opportunity to do.”
About the One Health Alliance
The One Health Alliance was set up to provide a revolutionary approach to the delivery of technology and information solutions to both public and private healthcare organisations. The One Health Alliance is about delivering an umbrella of services and solutions to match all healthcare IT and information requirements for all types of healthcare organisations, large or small, public or private, at any location.
Each Alliance member has a proven track record and a network of employees with extensive experience ranging from clinicians, nurses, healthcare administrators and IT professionals. Working in partnership, collectively the Alliance solutions can help health payor and provider organisations improve financial, operational and clinical efficiency so that they can deliver the highest standards of patient care. Alliance solutions and services provide among others: Infrastructure, hosting and managed services, business and technical consulting, business intelligence and management reporting, evidence-based decision support, electronic patient record and clinical information systems and diagnostic intelligence.
Media contact
Sarah Bruce, Highland Marketing on behalf of the One Health Alliance
Phone: +44 (0) 1877 339922
Mobile: +44 (0)7557 265473
Email: sarahb@highland-marketing.com
Clinical Solutions endorsement for EHI CCIO campaign
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Clinical Solutions whole-heartedly supports the CCIO campaign. As a trusted provider of clinical decision support and clinical content products for healthcare professionals, we believe that it is imperative for senior clinicians to engage and lead health informatics projects and programmes.
Placing a clinician at board level in every Trust is a logical step; they have the expertise to understand the tools and systems needed to place the patient at the centre of care. We are all aware of the barriers some technology projects have encountered over the years; placing a CCIO at the heart of every project will provide the leadership needed to steer these projects in the right direction.
Sunquest ICE™ eases the pain of service consolidation
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM) has taken advantage of Sunquest’s ICE™ OpenNet module to enable patient clinical data to be shared between hospitals, helping to ensure the continuation of safe, timely and effective antenatal care when consolidating maternity services.
Centralising services has become a financial necessity throughout the NHS, and inpatient maternity services at Manchester’s Trafford Hospital have now been relocated to the nearby Wythenshawe Hospital. To minimise the impact of this change on patients, community midwives still provide outpatient antenatal services at Trafford Hospital, requiring an advanced electronic patient record solution that allows staff to access the relevant laboratory test results, ultrasound scans and X-rays at either location. Nigel Martin, pathology laboratory IT manager at UHSM, explained: “When establishing this new service it was vital that midwives and doctors had access to all the necessary patient information whether the patient was attending Trafford Hospital or Wythenshawe Hospital. We were already using Sunquest’s ICE at both sites, as well as in local GPs’ surgeries, and so the ICE OpenNet module perfectly matched our needs.”
ICE OpenNet enables multiple trusts to share vital patient reports and test results quickly and securely, allowing healthcare professionals to spend more time with patients and avoid costly and unnecessary repeat testing. The seamless integration offered by ICE OpenNet makes it very straightforward to use, and this further enhances the patient experience according to midwife Helen Davies: “ICE OpenNet is very easy from the user’s perspective, and patients are not even aware of it. You simply click on the OpenNet icon within the already familiar ICE software to view all of a patient’s records from other sites within the network, helping to speed up patient care and improve the experience for expectant mothers.”
For more information, please contact:
Sunquest Information Systems (Europe) Limited
4, 4A & 6 Octagon Business Park
Hospital Road, Little Plumstead
Norwich, NR13 5FH
Contact: + 44 (0) 845 519 4010 Fax: +44 (0) 845 519 4030
icesales@sunquestinfo.com www.sunquestinfo.com
About Sunquest Information Systems
Sunquest Information Systems, Inc.delivers market leading diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions designed and implemented to fulfill the business objectives of today’s healthcare leaders. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, the company has offices in Raleigh, North Carolina; Norwich, United Kingdom; and Bangalore, India. Sunquest serves the global marketplace with reliable technology required for mission critical applications. These solutions provide the foundation to optimize the healthcare experience, deliver safe, effective, and timely patient care, expand community reach, and transform the delivery of healthcare with predictive and personalised medicine.
Paperless Scotland
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Scotland’s goal of paperless correspondence between hospitals and GPs has moved closer to a deal reports EHI.
