Simpl develops two Context Management designs for the NHS in Wales
Healthcare IT advisor Simpl has developed two context management designs for the NHS in Wales. Approved for use by the National Architecture Design Board*, the designs deliver a range of options for providing 4,500 clinicians working across all Welsh NHS Trusts with seamless, single log-on access, to new functionality and existing local, clinical portals, workstations & applications - both via the national Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP). This will enable more efficient and effective access to patient records and better care for nearly 2.9 million patients per year.
Simpl is responsible for overall development of the context management designs, research for appropriate commercial products and successful proof of concepts at Gwent Healthcare Trust and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) NHS Trust.
"As the WCP develops further it will become functionally richer and ultimately we will aim to replace most existing local portals, workstations and applications," says Informing Healthcare's project lead. "However, in the meantime, we needed context management designs which demonstrated a standard approach to linking the WCP with existing, local systems. We did not want a lack of functionality within the WCP to impede its roll-out, we hoped that by linking with existing systems it would help to speed up adoption of the WCP, and we wanted to allow Trusts to keep certain specialist applications such as local intensive care systems."
The designs provide a standard approach to linking the WCP to in-house, custom-built applications that can be modified to link to the WCP, and a standard approach to linking the WCP with legacy, vendor supplied systems, which cannot be modified and require commercial products to link them.
"The context management designs allow a clinician to choose a patient once in one application and when the patient enters another application, the patient's information is already pre-fetched and presented, removing the need to re-select the patient in the second application," says Paul Malcolm, EMEA Regional Director, Simpl. "This means that once integration of the WCP with local, existing applications, portals and workstations - using the new designs - is complete, clinicians across Wales will be able to access patient information using both legacy Lab Information Systems or Patient Admin Systems for example and new functionality such as Pathology Test Requesting and Results Reporting (TRRR) - all from a single point and using a single log-on."
*The National Architecture Design Board was setup to oversee the clinical and technical design relating to the delivery of the Informing Healthcare Programme in Wales.
For more information or a telephone interview with Simpl or Informing Healthcare, please contact:
Gavin Loader or Toby Gavin
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