Benenden to deploy Oasis EPR
- 26 June 2008
Private healthcare group, the Benenden Hospital Trust has signed a five year contract with Oasis Medical Solutions, to implement the Oasis patient administration system.
Benenden, whose main hospital is in Cranbrook, Kent, has been using a legacy PAS for the last ten years, but, due to an increase in NHS business as part of the Choose and Book initiative, needed a system that could integrate directly.
Jane Abbot, clinical services director at Benenden, said: “Over 97% of our patients rate the quality of care and treatment they received from us as excellent or very good. We need the best information system available, to help us sustain the high standards we set ourselves.
“Two considerations were very important to us; our system needs to have the right communications in place with national initiatives like Choose and Book and it must be compatible with the wider IT strategy of Benenden Healthcare Society.”
The group formed a selection board for its new system, involving a variety of staff including clinicians, and eventually chose the Oasis system from Oasis Medical Solutions, formerly Capula Healthcare.
Oasis has been developed as an electronic patient record system with modules for all acute healthcare settings. It includes basic administration, as well as order communications and reporting modules, theatres, radiology and sexual health. Benenden will also use its Choose and Book module.
“Our final decision was based on the quality and scope of the Oasis product and the commitment of Oasis Medical Solutions at every level in the company,” Abbot added.
Once fully deployed, Oasis will be operational in all areas of the hospital and is intended to go live in February 2009.
An Oasis Medical Solutions spokesperson told E-Health Insider: “Oasis will offer Benenden a more efficient, effective, streamlined system across the whole hospital providing seamless integration between departments. Planning is currently under way for this large deployment, which will all go-live at the same time.”
The hospital will also use the Oasis Access component of the system, which is designed to facilitate an interactive approach to the collection of data via direct engagement of patients.
Self-service kiosks will be installed so that patients can check-in, complete self registration, provide additional information before their appointment or take part in questionnaires and surveys.
Richard Moxon, sales director at Oasis Medical Solutions, said: “This is a very important contract for our company. Benenden Hospital Trust is an independent organisation with the freedom to choose a system from any supplier in the market. They have demonstrated their confidence in us and, through the quality of our products and our commitment and experience, we will show that their confidence is justified.
“In May 2008 Oasis Medical Solutions was awarded framework contracts in 12 categories by NHS Connecting for Health in the supply of IT services to the NHS. Our role is to design and deploy systems which provide our customers with the information and streamlined processes they need and to enable them to work with new national healthcare initiatives.”
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