Medway NHS Trust and the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have chosen EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system to improve care of mothers and their babies.
The two deals are the latest in the busy maternity information systems market, where a growing number of NHS trusts are procuring maternity systems.
EuroKing Miracle will supply the trusts with its E3 third generation maternity information system (MIS). The system will be implemented in the maternity departments of Frimley Park Hospital and has already been installed in the Medway Maritime Hospital, in Gillingham.
The trusts will use the new E3 system to integrate maternity, postnatal/delivery and fetal ultrasound units across the two hospitals as well as external satellite clinics.
E3 produces a record for mother and baby together, and separately for the baby alone. The system will be accessed by more than 200 users across the two sites, together with community based staff including GPs and health visitors.
A EuroKing spokesperson told E-Health Insider: “EuroKing has been appointed by Medway to provide their E3 system, CTG Trium and archiving of records from its old Protos system.
“Also it has been awarded Frimley Park which was initially contested by Huntleigh but to no avail. The initial decision to go with EuroKing remains. Deployment plans are currently being finalised with the trusts.”
Huntleigh Healthcare this week sold its subsidiary Care Records to System C. Care Records is the clinical IT firm behind the Eclipse MIS, which was bought by medical device firm Huntleigh in 2006.
Use of the integration capabilities of the new MIS – called the Connect2 platform – will allow the trusts to produce electronic maternity notes, recording the whole pathway from confirmation of pregnancy, to discharge, to the health visitor during post-natal care.
According to EuroKing, use of the Connect2 platform will allow the MIS to be tailored to fit the existing workflow patterns of both hospitals.
Once the system is operational it will be accessible to community-based staff, allowing data to be entered in real-time by community midwives and other professionals, such as GPs and health visitors.
Medway will also install GE’s ViewPoint gynaecological and pre-natal diagnosis systems, supplied by EuroKing, which will allow staff to collect data directly from ultrasound equipment and update their patient database. Frimley Park has been using this system since May 2007.
The deal follows a successful 2007 for EuroKing with deals secured with Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and King’s College successfully went live with E3 in June 2007.
This year, EuroKing will face new competition, after the announcement earlier this week, that System C had acquired Care Records, developers of the rival Eclipse MIS.
The spokesperson said: “It’s a very interesting and exciting time for EuroKing at the moment.”
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