IMS MAXIMS has announced the appointment of Angela White as the company's first ever medical director. The creation of the new post reflects IMS MAXIMS commitment to ensure that its solutions are developed in a way that supports clinicians and healthcare professionals' needs and requirements.
Angela has a long history of providing quality clinical care throughout her career where she specialised in elderly trauma and rehabilitation. She has a strong track record in leading service reviews and designing and implementing change to deliver significant improvements in end-to-end care pathways for patients both at Royal United Hospital in Bath and more recently at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB).
In addition, she has been involved with a number of eHealth initiatives including establishing a trauma database to provide a foundation for clinical audit and evidence based service improvement and the introduction of picture archiving and communications system (PACS) within orthopaedic clinics, wards and theatres.
Shane Tickell, IMS MAXIMS CEO, said: "Angela has an excellent track record and a well-deserved reputation having undertaken a number of clinical management and strategic roles at both NHS trust level and within the wider health economy.
"The creation of this post underlines the speed of our growth and our determination to continue building for the future. We have an excellent suite of products, an expanding customer base and a reputation for being good to work with. The addition of Angela to our team will be an important factor in ensuring IMS MAXIMS’ solutions are continuously developed to the highest standards."
In addition to Angela's service improvement work at UHMB, she spent two years as the lead clinician for health informatics at the trust as it embarked on a project to implement the Lorenzo electronic patient record (EPR) software. This role included establishing and chairing a clinical advisory group for health informatics aimed at creating clinical engagement. At a national level, she was also a member of Connecting for Health's Expert Reference Group for the development of an operating theatre module for Lorenzo.
Before training in medicine, Angela had a career as a consultant in the IT industry. This unique combination of experience enables her to clearly interpret clinical requirements for developers thus supporting IMS MAXIMS' ambitions to design a new generation of innovative products to meet contemporary needs.
In her new role at IMS MAXIMS, Angela will use her skills and experience to ensure that there is clinical input in the development of the company's solutions from the outset so that products are future proofed for customers.
Angela said: "I'm passionate that change in healthcare should be strategically driven and not reactive as has so often been the case. Implementation of the current reforms offer healthcare organisations opportunities they have not had before.
"Part of their strategy should be the adoption of solutions that not only help solve today's problems but that are sufficiently flexible and agile to help solve those of tomorrow as well. I believe IMS MAXIMS have an exciting future in working with healthcare organisations in all sectors to deliver this change and I'm delighted to join the team.
"I have been enormously impressed by the quality and commitment of the staff including those who work in association with the company. The IMS MAXIMS' team have delivered healthcare systems and software solutions with demonstrable stamina and longevity over 25 years."
About IMS MAXIMS
About IMS MAXIMS IMS MAXIMS is an electronic patient record provider working towards better, safer patient care. Specialists in developing clinical and administrative software solutions for healthcare providers, IMS MAXIMS currently
supports more than 150 organisations, 11 million patient records in the UK, and 1.9 million patient records in Ireland, approx 50% of the population, as well as 20,000 users of IMS MAXIMS products.
MAXIMS is at the heart of the clinical and administrative life of everything from large UK and Irish hospitals, to small 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.