Cerner has opened a new office in Dublin as it prepares to implement RIS/PACS and Order Communications across parts of the Republic of Ireland later this year, and its Irish division will renamed Cerner Ireland Ltd.
The company has been working in Ireland since June 2004, when St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, chose to implement an integrated RIS/PACS and Order Communications solution as the first stage of their hospital-wide, patient centric, clinical information solution.
Since then, trusts have seen the benefits experienced by St. James’s and are keen on taking up the system, which the hospital says has introduced “the clear benefit of combining data, imaging, orders and results and establishes the foundation for a full electronic patient record.”
Cerner’s UK and Ireland managing director, David Sides, told E-Health Europe: “Ireland is a rapidly growing market for advanced healthcare technology, with an increasing focus on improving healthcare at the primary level. With more business coming in, we felt the time was right to open a new office in Dublin.
“We will be appointing a new head for the Dublin Office who will be in charge of continuing the good growth in Ireland including some more procurements for RIS/PACS solutions in the next year.”
Cerner’s system unifies radiology information system (RIS), a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and the electronic ordering and display of results for all pathology and radiology examinations within the hospital and the benefits of the new system are already being seen.
The new office, based at Newenham House in the Northern Cross Business Park, Dublin, will take over all responsibility for Republic of Ireland operations effective immediately. This was previously run from the company’s London offices for the past three years
Sides added: “This new office serves to strengthen Cerner’s relationships with key clients and enhance its software offerings for the European market by having translation and localisation services in Ireland. “
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Fiona Barr