University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol)
has selected System C to supply and implement its Medway patient
administration and electronic patient record (PAS/EPR) system
across all of its hospitals.
The Trust is a leading research centre, the regions largest
provider of medical and dental teaching and is one of the largest
acute NHS Trusts in the country, with an income last year of
£507m. It employs over 7,500 people, delivering over
100 different clinical services from a group of nine hospitals in
the heart of the city.
The selection was made after a rigorous six month Official
Journal of the European Union (OJEU) procurement process involving
many suppliers. Solutions purchased by UH Bristol include
PAS, Accident & Emergency, maternity, theatres, the clinical
data collection module and the data warehouse and reporting system,
Medway Business Intelligence. System Cs portal product,
Medway Connect, will be used to integrate numerous third party and
Trust-developed applications. This includes integration with
Medicode and Sunquest ICE.
The contract also includes a comprehensive deployment service
including data migration, localisation, integration, training,
testing, floor walking and seven years support. Medway will replace
the Trusts existing Patient Administration System suite (HP-EDS
Swift).
Stephen Hann, clinical systems programme director for UH
Bristol, said: We chose Medway because we are a large and complex
Trust and we needed a strategic product that could be configured to
meet the needs of all of our users. Medway is a modern
system, built specifically for the NHS, and is feature-rich and
intuitive to use. This is a step-change in PAS and clinical
functionality for the Trust and will allow us to realise many
benefits for patients and staff.
Many hospital staff were involved in the evaluation process and
their feedback showed that they were overwhelmingly in favour of
Medway. Our staff worked very hard on this procurement and I am
very pleased to have such a successful outcome, he added. We
are now looking forward to working collaboratively with System Cs
teams in partnership for many years to come.
Markus Bolton, director of sales and strategy for System C,
commented: We are delighted to have been chosen by UH Bristol on a
project of this size and complexity. The Trust is pragmatic,
enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and we anticipate a busy and
enjoyable deployment.
Of course deployments like these are all about the benefits and the
work to embed the system into the fabric of the Trust and the drive
out of those benefits will start on day one.
Dr Ian Denley, System C CEO, said: We have spent many years
developing the latest .NET Medway product and building the capacity
and capability to deploy it in volume. Being selected by UH Bristol
is a huge vote of confidence for our people and for
Medway.
Background
The UH Bristol deployment consists of:
¢ Medway Patient Administration System (PAS). Functionality
includes master patient index, inpatients, outpatients, day care
and case note tracking. The core PAS solution will be required to
cover, amongst other functions, patient registration, in-patient
care, waiting lists, out-patients, coding in all statutory defined
formats, case note tracking, bed management, clinical data
collection, referral to treatment pathways, choose and book
compliance, audit reports, operational and management reporting,
and comprehensive data extraction facilities for all other
reporting purposes.
Other modules procured include:
¢ Medway Accident & Emergency: a clinical emergency
department system
¢ Theatres: scheduling and operative documentation
¢ Medway Business Intelligence: integrated data warehouse
and reporting tools
¢ Medway Connect: integrated messaging and portal
functionality offering a single view and update service for the
Trust-wide patient record
¢ Medway CST (Clinical Support Tools): allows the Trust to
design and implement its own screens for collecting clinical
information on each patient in support of specific speciality
requirements (e.g. cancer details)
¢ Medway Maternity: a clinical maternity information system
to be used by both acute and community clinical staff
This is the fourth major trust-wide contract for Medway in the
last year. The company announced earlier this month that Gateshead
Health NHS Foundation Trust had chosen Medway as its core strategic
PAS and EPR system, in another seven-year contract, following Royal
Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
