Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a trust-wide clinical information system from System C Healthcare. Over 1,000 Aintree users, including 700 clinicians, went live with Medway Sigma Clinician's Desktop last week. This will be extended to 3,000 users as more clinicians and administrative staff are trained over the coming months.
Clinician's Desktop offers a wide range of clinical functionality including results reporting, radiology and pathology order requesting, clinical alerts, integrated viewing of PACS images, work lists, discharge summaries and clinical correspondence.
Before go-live, the Aintree system was pre-populated with 10 years of patient activity, three million clinical letters and over 600,000 test results.
The data collected is fed real-time into Medway Sigma BI, System C's data warehouse solution which Aintree installed in May. The data is available for all standard outputs including reports, ad hoc queries, and data displays, including its recently deployed bed management dashboard. Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises two main hospitals serving some 330,000 residents of North Liverpool, South Sefton and Kirkby. University Hospital Aintree is a large teaching hospital providing Accident & Emergency services and a wide range of acute and non-acute specialties, while Walton Hospital provides outpatient and day surgery services.
Professor Mike Pearson, leading the clinical implementation, said: "This system brings together test ordering, results and other clinical information in ways that should make care not only faster, but also safer.
"It's a very important step in a system that we expect to produce many clinical benefits over the next year," he added.
Ward Priestman, director of informatics at the Trust said: "This has been a very smooth deployment and it is a pleasure working on a project focused on supporting clinicians. The next phases of the programme - integrated prescribing, integrated electronic document management, and patient kiosks for outpatient clinic registration - are due to be completed by April 2010."
Dr Ian Denley, chief executive of System C, said the company had completed over a dozen successful Medway Sigma deployments this year, including patient management, clinical, maternity, and business intelligence systems.
"We are very pleased to see the system so well received by users. The fact the system draws heavily on Microsoft technology, and makes use of NHS common user interface components, really helped us here as people are used to the way the software looks and feels," he added.
System C's Clinician's Desktop is part of the company's Medway Sigma suite of healthcare applications. It can operate as part of the Medway Sigma PAS/EPR solution or as an add-on to a third party PAS.
It is a modern .net application running with the full suite of Microsoft development tools including Office, SharePoint, PerformancePoint and SQL Server. It can be run locally or from a data centre.
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