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As the future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS comes under scrutiny once again, trusts are turning their attention to systems integration projects to deliver on immediate business and clinical priorities.

Lyn Whitfield reports.

Complimentary IT workshops from Kavanagh

Kavanagh runs a continuous programme of complimentary IT education events. Whether the focus is on leveraging your existing IT investment, assessing new technologies or exploring how to align IT to your business, Kavanagh’s programme of events can help you to meet your goals.

Our Technical Workshops are aimed at technical and IT infrastructure specialists and provide a technical presentation with examples of how and where products are being used today. Kavanagh's Strategy Workshops are designed for IT management, to provide an insight into what a particular concept can really deliver to your business and infrastructure. Often featuring keynote industry speakers, Kavanagh’s Executive Events focus on the current technological and business challenges – and opportunities – faced by senior computing professionals.

E-mail: kavanagh@kavanagh.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1344 409 800
Web: www.kavanagh.co.uk

CACI

CACI is a leading provider of IT solutions and services to the NHS. Over the years, CACI has developed solutions for more than 100 NHS organisations across the UK, including the Department of Health, special health authorities, shared services organisations and trusts.

To meet the information management needs of today’s NHS, CACI has developed InView. InView is a fully integrated management information system that provides a single and coherent source of clinical, operational, financial and management information, from which sophisticated web-based reports and analyses can be generated quickly and efficiently.

CACI is now at the forefront of the healthcare IT market, working with only the very best technologies from companies including Business Objects, Microsoft and Oracle.

E-mail: info@caci.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 161 848 3380 (Angela Norman)
Web: www.caci.co.uk/Health.aspx

Integration Makes “Best of Breed” Work

BridgeForward’s interface engine products, ClearSpan Server and Edge4, are used by hundreds of hospitals, GPs and software application suppliers to solve critical integration challenges. Leading suppliers partner with BridgeForward to provide their customers with stable, enterprise-wide integration at a manageable cost.

In Scotland, ClearSpan Server is the “backbone” of the nation-wide results reporting system, SCI-Store, connecting 204 hospitals and 1,100 GPs.

At Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, ClearSpan Server is used to “amplify” the capabilities of iSoft’s iIE by connecting a multitude of applications to iIE and, through it, to iPM and iCM. And at BMI/Netcare, Nuffield Health and Ramsay Health Care, ClearSpan Server serves as a system-wide integration hub.

E-mail: gina.stradis@bridgeforward.net
Tel: +44 (0) 1344 742 833 (Gina Stradis)
Web: www.bridgeforwardsoftware.com

Intersystems

InterSystems Corporation is a global software product company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 22 countries. InterSystems CACHÉ is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble is a rapid integration platform. InterSystems HealthShare leverages existing healthcare applications to create regional or national electronic health records. InterSystems DeepSee makes it possible to add embedded real-time business intelligence in transactional systems. InterSystems TrakCare is an advanced web-based healthcare information system.

Visit InterSystems.co.uk, or contact us to hear how NHS organisations are using InterSystems to handle complex integration projects – reducing development time, minimising management overhead and enjoying lower cost of ownership.

E-mail: Helen.Dew@InterSystems.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1753 855 450 (Helen Dew)
Web: www.InterSystems.co.uk

Accelerating Connectivity in the NHS

Rhapsody Integration Engine is a cost-effective tool for NHS organisations who want to take back control of their interfacing requirements, eliminating long-term reliance on expensive consultants. Rhapsody offers rapid connectivity between existing systems within a Trust, as well as integration to systems deployed under Connecting for Health.

Rhapsody is in use at NHS organisations across the UK, including East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Rhapsody Integration Engine offers Trusts and Health Boards significantly faster message speeds, as tested at IBM labs, and includes native support for all healthcare standards including HL7, XML and EDIFACT. Contact Orion Health for a trial copy!

E-mail: simon.philpott@orionhealth.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7875 493 175 (Simon Philpott)
Web: www.orionhealth.com/uk/rhapsody/

WCI Healthcare

For over 20 years we have worked in partnership with the NHS, focusing on areas in which we can deliver exceptional value. We have a demonstrable track record of delivering solutions to meet the specific process, service and technology needs of our healthcare clients.

Over the years, we have worked with over 200 NHS trusts and healthcare organisations, simplifying processes and technology to reduce waste and improve patient care. Our approach is simple. We build lean patient pathways, supporting them with good information flow and enabling them with appropriate technology.

Examples of recent, successful, solutions across the NHS include the implementation of lean electronic discharge summaries, full functional end-to-end pathology requesting and resulting and integration and workflow management across RIS and PACS systems.

E-mail: info@wcihealthcare.com
Tel: +44 (0)1223 576 680 (Janet Waplington)
Web: www.wcihealthcare.com/Healthcare/Integration

Simpl – Integrating healthcare information and systems

Simpl is a systems integration company specialising in healthcare projects. The integration of clinical applications remains a challenge for all healthcare organisations across the globe. There is no one application that can provide everything a healthcare organisation requires. Simpl have been successfully helping our clients to deal with this challenge for over 20 years.

As Microsoft’s worldwide healthcare partner, Simpl developed the Microsoft Health Connection Engine (HCE). We have also implemented reference implementations of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) clinical document sharing profiles for Microsoft. As a gold partner, we specialise in BizTalk Server, SQL Server, Dynamic and .NET to develop healthcare applications and provide integration of clinical applications.

E-mail: paul.malcolm@simpl-uk.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7193 0316 (Paul Malcolm)
Web: www.simpl-uk.com/health/health-detail.aspx