Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has selected Allscripts to deliver its electronic patient record (EPR) after having already implemented the supplier’s patient administration system (PAS).
The trust went live with Allscript’s PAS in October 2017 and hopes to add the Sunrise EPR in autumn as part of a phased deployment.
Part of this deployment will see order communications and test results, e-prescribing, clinical documents, and Sunrise Mobile Care rolled out across the trust.
It will also deploy Sunrise Emergency Care in its A&E department, and Sunrise Surgical Care in theatres.
Director of IT, Michael Beckett, said the trust’s deployment of the Allscripts PAS made Sunrise a “natural progression” for the organisation and was confident that Allscripts could support the trust’s objectives and digital ambitions, over the lifetime of the contract.
He added: “This trust cannot meet its objectives using a best of breed solution. We need a single EPR to support users, and Allscripts is the best fit for us.”
It is also hoped the trust’s decision to select AllScripts will help support closer working between health and care organisations in Kent.
Neighbouring East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is an Allscripts PAS and Sunrise customer, having signed up for Sunrise in December 2016. Nearby Medway NHS Foundation Trust also uses Allscripts’ PAS system.
Steve Brain, vice president and UK managing director of Allscripts, said: “Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells’ decision to extend its relationship with Allscripts is a huge vote of confidence in us as a digitisation partner, and we look forward to working with them on a full breadth and depth EPR deployment.
“As organisations across Kent start to form an integrated care service, it is vital that the EPRs used by the areas main hospitals are open and interoperable and ready to share information with each other.
“Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells’ decision to select Sunrise puts the whole area in a much better position to move forward with this agenda, and we also look forward to supporting it on that journey.”
13 August 2018 @ 09:33
Well done Maidstone, great news for you and your patients
11 August 2018 @ 17:03
Why the hell didn’t we get a national system? The more systems we have the more fragmented the nhs IT system becomes.
13 August 2018 @ 13:37
Really? You ask this question 15 years after the fact!
15 August 2018 @ 14:50
At the time, no supplier bidding could scale up to that size. The only supplier likely was EPIC and they were precluded from bidding once they won the Kaiser Permante contract in USA. 9 million souls on one system, end to end solution from patient home to gp to hospital and back. Also daft ideas of reducing risk on HMG by getting multiple suppliers to buy the risk and spread across the suppliers. Given most of them knew sod all about clinical IT, the outcome was predictable.
14 August 2018 @ 15:33
… because no-one ever tried to procure one?
NPfIT was never intended to “get” a National system, apart from Spine Services, but to encourage competition between several suppliers of Regional EPRs all linked to the Spine.
That went well, didn’t it?
10 August 2018 @ 14:04
Great, we (at King’s) hope to work with you as well. I am sure that we can all learn a great deal from one another. Hopefully it will help us link up clinical pathways and analytics across the South-East. Are you listening NHSE? #ExemplarFollower #NaturalFit #GiveUsTheMoney 🙂