NHS Scotland awards Cambio CDS contract
- 18 October 2017
NHS Scotland has selected Sweden’s Cambio Healthcare Systems to supply a national clinical decision support system.
In the first phase of the project, the Scottish Government Primary Care Division is sponsoring implementation in early adopter general practices.
If this goes well, the longer-term aim is to deploy Cambio’s solution as a national clinical decision support platform across Scotland.
The Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Division has run the procurement and is managing the initial implementation and evaluation in early adopter sites.
According to Cambio, its CDS application is built around open standards and works with any electronic heath record system.
The CDS solution is claimed to embed into the clinical workflow to assist and help clinicians in real time to follow recommended latest evidence for treatment and prevention of medical conditions.
Cambio’s CDS solution is already well established in the Nordics with the tool deployed across eight Swedish Healthcare Regions, accounting for 30% of the population.
A study using the application applied to the single area of stroke prevention demonstrated that the DS saves save lives and avoid unnecessary individual suffering by reducing strokes caused by irregular heart rhythm.
“For Cambio, this opportunity opens up the possibility to address a wider international audience with our EHR independent CDS solution,” says Peter Gille, Group CEO of Cambio Healthcare Systems.
NHS Scotland covers a population of 5.8 million people. There are 956 GP Practices and 14 health boards. The first phase of the project is now being planned and scoped with early adopter sites.
6 Comments
Great news! From the very encouraging and relevant evidence in Sweden, we will see the incidents of stroke, and the often devastating consequences for people, families and the economy, reduce significantly in Scotland. Well done to all involved!
I hope that the use of CDS in Scotland is extended soon to help with many other conditions.
Would be interested to know how it embeds in to the present clinical systems? Have EMIS et al have enabled this?.
I understand that the intention is that this should integrate with GP systems )and others) but in early stages and many of the integration API/tech/contractual aspects are a bit in flux with upcoming HL7 FHIR GP-Connect etc.
Ian,
Are you sure it is technology or still the financial reluctance to share data by the bigger companies (despite their support of FHIR and “open” software) which is the main restrictor of development in this area?
bw
Finally, some good news and progress towards not only increased safety for patients and real clinical decision support but also from a cost-saving perspective. The benefits reported on various case studies from Cambio’s CDS use in the Nordics, especially around stroke prevention are very encouraging. Hope they will be also proven in the UK and this will be a lesson for NHS England too.
Congratulations and well deserved! The momentum around open standards is gathering and this, like the 100,000 Genomes Project, is another example of a major project being based around open systems.
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