Our next summary of contracts and life in the digital health world includes news from Guy’s and St Thomas ’NHS Foundation Trust and several offers for Cerner.
Guy and St. Thomas select Nuance
The most recent post has been this week, when it was announced that it had the NHS Foundation of Guy’s and St Thomas Selected shade to offer voice recognition technology.
AI software company Dragon Medical One software will be integrated with the trust’s Epic electronic health record. This will allow more than 10,000 clinicians to collect clinical documentation and browse patient records with their voice instead of writing.
Electronic health record to be developed in East Lancashire
The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust was also seen in April seal an agreement with Cerner to implement an electronic health record.
The Cerner Millennium platform will replace paper records and other electronic processes and create a unique source of clinical information.
It will provide clinicians with instant and secure access to a patient’s history and treatments and, as a result, help them make better and informed decisions based on the patient’s specific needs.
Two London trusts are registered with Cerner
It has been a busy month for Cerner as he also reported that the NHS Trust of London North West University Healthcare and the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have had signed an agreement implement an integrated electronic health record.
The agreement will allow the two organizations to join the Cerner Millennium EHR platform already used in the neighboring Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
This is the first time that four English trusts have come together on one platform and it is part of the Integrated Care System (ICS) of North West London.
The GCCs award a computer support contract
In April there was also a group of clinical commission groups (GCCs) in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight selecting Healthcare Computing, in collaboration with NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden & GEM) for provide GP computer support services.
With date of entry into operation in July 2021, the contract covers the provision of support to 228 GP positions with services that include: computer support and service delivery, management of equipment and computer resources, software and license management, administration and NHS Mail support, IT infrastructure, server management, clinical systems, cybersecurity, information governance, as well as healthcare and social network management (including Wi-Fi).
NHS Digital accepts agreement to digitize Covid tests
The start of the month began with the launch of NHS Digital a deal with Scandit which will see the digitization of the Covid testing process.
The agreement means that NHS organizations will have access to Scandit technology to support Covid-related services, such as trial monitoring, PPE monitoring and patient care, until 30 November 2021.
