Euroking’s new maternity goes live at Heart of England

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital trust to go live with EuroKing Miracle’s E3 third generation Maternity Information System.

The foundation trust, which is one of the largest in the UK, went live with the upgrade to the Miracle MIS at its two major sites, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals, where it is used by over 300 users. E3 went live at 8am and the first baby was recorded on E3 at 8.14am.

E3 is a web-based version of the Miracle MIS, which now runs on Intersystem’s Cache technology platform and is designed to be operated out of data centres or delivered on an application service provider basis.

The latest version of the Miracle system covers maternity including ante-natal clinic, day assessment unit, Antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal wards, pregnancy emergency assessment area and the neonatal unit.

Jonathan Raife, chief executive of Euroking told E-Health Insider: "E3 takes our experience of the past 22-years and incorporates it into a new web-based system that includes care pathways."

Heart of England cares for women as they give birth to over seven thousand babies, while Birmingham Heartlands is a referral centre for the care of high risk pregnancies in the area. The trust has used Euroking maternity systems for the past six years.

With the Foundation trust expected to soon take over neighbouring Good Hope hospital the expanded trust would potentially become responsible for a total of 11,000 deliveries a year.

According to Euroking E3 offers a complete solution, enabling midwives to enter information at the point of care and provides clinicians with an easily accessible, single summary of a mother’s and baby’s obstetric care throughout the entire pregnancy.

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Acting Directorate Manager Tracie Fulton said of E3 "It offers us a robust system with all the features of the old K2 MIS, but with more functionality and features which the trust demanded. E3 is more patient centric and therefore is able to provide an overview of a mother’s and baby’s record at a glance.

Fulton said the system offers clinicians and midwives "accurate and detailed information at the point of care". She said midwives can enter all the relevant details when necessary thus increasing accuracy and avoiding duplication.

She explained that collecting good quality information and good quality statistics is needed to improve patient safety and quality care. "We can use the information collated and extracted from E3 to help with Clinical Governance; audits, risk management and training."

“The Trust is beginning to look to the future and rapidly grow," adds Fulton. "E3 offers us far more potential and flexibility to accommodate this. We are hoping that we will be able to extend the system out into the community as it has wireless capability.”

Sue Dennett, consultant midwife at Heart of England said E3 enables staff to better tailor patient care and plan further ahead using a familiar, user-friendly web-based system: “E3 offers a risk management system where it flags up any potential risks. The previous system worked more on data storage, archiving basis. With the new system we will be able to do a great deal more with the data collected.”

Julie Tindale, midwife and maternity information systems manager added: “Midwives can spend more time caring for the mother and the baby which is ultimately the most important factor."

Tindale said that the new system enable staff to enter information at different points of the process, "allowing us to pick up on information that is relevant to us at the time". She said it can also be tailored to fit the needs of the individual. "EuroKing has really listened to what was missing from their previous system and because of that, has come up with a far more accurate solution.”

According to Dave Hextall, systems development manager at Birmingham Heartlands, said: “Implementing technology within the NHS is a complicated process, but EuroKing has highly competent technicians on their team who show a real understanding of the clinical process.”

Raife told EHI: "We see ourselves as the number one in the market. Only real independent company left investing in the marketplace." Euroking says it has its MIS, ultrasound and foetal systems currently installed at approximately 140 hospitals.