Kainos Win UK Another NHS Contract 

Irish EDM Supplier Adds to NHS Trust Collection as West Suffolk Implements Evolve Solution

West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust is to standardise on Kainos Evolve^TM, at its Bury St Edmunds hospital in a further substantial healthcare project win for the Dublin and Belfast electronic document and records management (EDM) solutions specialist.

Evolve is the flagship solution in Kainos's suite of healthcare solutions and has been developed in conjunction with NHS clinicians. It automates the creation, capture, handling and transmission of critical medical casenotes and operational documents and records, and is underpinned by Autonomy Records Management^TM, the world's most advanced retention and disposition solution.

The Trust aims to transform efficiency, accuracy and patient care, and will scan all existing patient notes (approx 250,000 case files with 160+ pages each), within the existing medical records library so that these can be made available electronically to all staff. All specialties will be included in the roll-out, using a scan-on-demand strategy for clinics. This will promote a structured and controlled project roll-out which will incorporate both in-patient and outpatient services.

The initial trigger for the project was the overwhelming volume of patient notes and the storage space they occupied within the Trust, explains Danny Collier, IM&T Project Manager for EDMS at the Trust. "We wanted to use the space for clinical purposes, while improving the patient experience. There are also risks associated with manual records handling for our staff, and with the deterioration of notes of a certain age."

Collier continued "Having a state-of-the-art EDMS will improve the patient experience by making notes securely available at any time across all specialties. This will enable clinicians to access high-quality scanned images of previous episodes of care and view these alongside current episodes. Structured scanning and sophisticated search capability will allow clinicians to add new notes if required and find the information relevant to them."

The evaluation process included site visits and shared experience meetings both at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust and other Trusts to give the West Suffolk team a broad understanding of what the different suppliers and products offered.

Commenting on the decision to award Kainos the contract, Nick McDonnell, Head of IM&T at the Trust, said, "I saw a supplier who both understood the strategic vision for the NHS and could demonstrate drive and enthusiasm in supporting West Suffolk in implementing the electronic documentation management system. NHS organisations will be expected to deliver more for less through a raft of transformation and efficiency initiatives in the coming years and by working alongside key companies like Kainos we will meet these challenges head on in delivering programmes of change."

Announcing the project win, Deirdre O'Neill, Head of ECM at Kainos, said, "We look forward immensely to driving through this critical EDMS project, which will have a significant impact on patient care and general efficiency at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust. We are delighted that another major Trust has chosen to standardise on Evolve."

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