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Acuity systemICU systemCancer systemDecision supportOther providersupportPACSPathologyIt has been agreed [at ISSG] that a limited deployment of an acuitysystem should go ahead to prove the benefits. The business case sitswith the medical and nursing teams, whilst IM&T are in discussionswith the preferred product supplier about the scalability of their costmodel.Discussions ongoing about the presentation of a business case. Needto ensure that any system recommended will cater for all ICU areasplus any HDU needs. The UHS suite including order communications(eQuest), EPMA, and the eDischarge summary, make the integrationissues larger for a system that will inherently do these things, as manyITU systems will. Further market research is ongoing re integrationcapabilities of available products.There is no change in the status of UHS cancer systems. Ascribe, thesupplier of the current system is investigating the possibility ofproductizing what UHS has. A widely used cancer dataset system isalso being checked for suitability to deploy within the UHS systemsmix. In palliative care, a new system has been procured that willreplace the deprecated system that was in use in that area.Minor work has been started in this area with the introduction of EPMAand the subsequent work to bring some of the data forward into webviews. UHS development team is currently over committed withintegration work in EPMA, the new PACS system, and a migration ofthe enterprise integration platform. The EPMA business caserecognized a need to put development time into this area of work andit is time to consider the introduction of that development under thedirection of the medical teams and the lead responsibility for IT.There is no indication that Solent or Southern Health are going todepart at this stage from a strategy of combined EPR products.Southern Health have also indicated they are willing to buy in to theEDM proposals from UHS. This is on-going and will be monitored.Preferred bidders are announced for the RIS/PACS consortium(Salisbury, <strong>Southampton</strong>, Portsmouth, IoW, Solent and SouthernHealth). Radiology (RIS) will be HSS CRIS PACS will be Sectra Vendor neutral archive will be Acuo Hosting and sharing will be Phillips with Burnbank and ForcareA single contract will be let and managed for the consortium.Work has started with the letter of intent in place.The plan is to be live before the end of the current contract in June2012The consortium for the service presents a risk to the UHS IM&Tarchitecture and integration. The required timescales and [lack of]progress to date are adding to this. UHS IM&T are contributing to thework, but a clear direction on a number of key issues such as wherethe system sits and how the service wider than the LaboratoryInformation Management System (LIMS) is to be provided, arerequired.3

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