Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 041 (a)
IM&T Strategic Direction – Annual Update to Trust Board
1. Introduction
The purpose of this report is to provide the annual update on the Trust’s IM&T strategic
direction and any major risks with the approach. In 2008 a 5 year IM&T strategy (2008-2013)
was produced to steer the Trust towards the opening of the new hospital and the associated
plans to have a state-of-the-art hospital enabled by the latest technology, with clinical
professionals delivering their services in a totally paperless environment. The strategy was
subject to annual review.
2. Current IM&T Strategy - 2008-2013
Decisions were made back in 2004, due to the announcement of the National Programme
for IT (NPfIT), that the Trust would implement the new solutions for Electronic Patient
Records supplied by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) and Computer Sciences Corporation
(CSC), the Local Service Provider (LSP). This would include a fully integrated solution
across the Local Health Economy (LHE). These solutions were free to the Trust, during
CSC’s contractual lifetime with CfH to deliver the Lorenzo solution set.
Originally back in 2004, the systems had to be fully delivered by 2010, but a number of
delays have occurred and the delivery timeframe has changed several times. The solutions
were designed to operate within a Data Centre provided by CSC, which removed the need
for management of the systems and associated hardware e.g. servers by local IM&T
departments.
The Trust had planned to start moving to Lorenzo in late 2010 or early 2011. This would give
sufficient time to implement EPR functionality to support a paperless hospital in 2016.
Lorenzo Regional Care comprises of 4 major releases to make up a single integrated clinical
solution across the LHE, and broadly comprises of the following:
• Release 1 – Clinic documents, assessments and results reporting
• Release 2 – Requesting of tests and investigations, replacing PAS, outpatient
prescribing, Care Plans and TTO/Discharge process.
• Release 3 – Theatres, Maternity, Inpatient Prescribing and Medicines Administration,
Advanced Bed Management, Multi-Resource Scheduling and integration with social
care messaging.
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