ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IMAGING SERVICES

Tender description

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH) is looking to appoint a single supplier to deliver electronic document imaging services, specific to health records, to the ICT Services Directorate. The Trust was formed on 1 April 2006, when the Queen’s Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital merged in order to develop a range of high quality, sustainable patient services delivered across several sites. NUH is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK and provides acute and specialist services to 2.5 million people within Nottingham and the surrounding communities from two hospital sites. NUH’s vision is to become the country’s best acute teaching trust by 2016. The Trust currently has 13,000+ employees. Accordingly a set of objectives for this initiative have been defined as: •Improve clinical safety by reducing the incidence of clinicians not having timely access to relevant and consistent patient information •Reduce the costs incurred in filing, retrieving, transporting and tracking casenotes across multiple sites •Make better use of physical storage space currently used for paper case notes •Improve the patient experience through fewer delays and cancellations caused by incomplete or missing information being available to clinicians •Improve the working life for staff by reducing frustrations associated with managing paper case notes. This service has the fundamental objective of providing a long-term casenote management solution through the use of electronic document management system capability that will integrate with the Trust’s EPR (Medway PAS). Medway PAS is currently being deployed and due to go live in the Autumn of 2013.