Milton Keynes purchases BigHand systems

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has decided to modernise its dictation processes by moving from analogue tapes to digital dictation.

Up to 500 users will eventually be equipped with technology from BigHand to record notes in digital format.

The move is part of a wider trust effort to restructure patient administration services to make them more efficient.

The trust purchased the software through the SPRINT II IT framework with supplier SCC, and is taking two additional BigHand modules. 

The first, Clinic Builder, creates a list of clinics and patients that clinicians can use to make sure that dictations are automatically titled and profiled with the correct information.

The second, Advanced Analytics, will support management reporting.

BigHand says it now has 48 NHS organisation deployments in the UK, with 26 trust-wide rollouts and 17,000 users.