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Scotland selects new national patient management system
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By EgovAsia Editors | Feb 8, 2010
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The NHS National Service Scotland has selected the InterSystems TrakCare connected health information system, which is developed in Australia, as the new national patient management system for Scotland.
The over £44M contract is a national framework in line with Scotland's eHealth Strategy that will enable any Health Board access to the system and associated modules over the next four years.
The new system will help to speed and improve the effectiveness of patient care in Scotland by ensuring patient information will only need to be entered once to make it immediately accessible by authorized staff in other care settings. The TrakCare patient management system includes hospital and mental health patient
administration, order communications, results reporting and clinical support tools. A number of optional modules are available for: accident and emergency; hospital electronic prescribing and medicine administration; pharmacy management; maternity; neonatal; and theaters.
Initially, the five purchasing Consortium NHS Boards involved (Ayrshire & Arran, Borders, Grampian, Greater Glasgow & Clyde, and Lanarkshire) will take advantage of this national framework agreement. Together with NHS Lothian, an existing TrakCare customer, these five Boards provide care for 70% of the Scottish population. Additional Health Boards are already in discussion about how this framework can benefit them.
Commenting on this development, Scottish Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon said, "This contract will enable Health Boards across Scotland to implement a single, nationally available patient management system that will play a major role in improving patient services. Clinicians and patients will both be winners from a system which will track patient journeys from referral to discharge. It means clinicians will have easier
and quicker access to medical records and patients will benefit from having more time with healthcare professionals."
