IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Description

To implement an electronic order comms solution primarily for Pathology and Radiology requesting and results reporting for all Trust-based clinicians and GPs within the Medway and Swale Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The system will also be available for other key healthcare partners within the community such as Prisons and the Army barracks. The system will be implemented in phases with Pathology and Radiology in the 1st phase and other services, to be confirmed, in future phases. For users of key acute services, initially Pathology and Radiology, to be able to place requests for services, such as diagnostic testing, electronically and to securely receive results/outputs electronically so that almost all requests and results will be delivered electronically. The implementation will improve patient safety and overall experience during healthcare episodes through increased data accuracy and information availability and improved data flows and faster diagnostic results in many cases. Increased use of technology will facilitate upcoming projects and programmes intended to reduce the Trust's reliance on paper and inefficient manual data entry processes.