Servicio Extremeno de Salud selects Autonomy

Spanish public healthcare service provider Servicio Extremeno de Salud has selected Autonomy to provide it with an enterprise-wide search platform to underpin a new prescription alert system

Servicio Extremeno de Salud (SES), a provider of health services to a million citizens in the Extremadura region of Spain, will use technology supplied by Autonomy to quickly and accurately provide alerts on patient prescription conflicts as part of a national project, entitled ‘JARA’

The new system, to be powered by Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), will automatically process patient information, including age, allergies, previous illnesses, etc, so that when they are prescribed a drug the pharmacist can assess whether there will be any complications with the prescription.

It is hoped the prescribing alert system eliminates the costs and time associated with manually examining each patient’s potential prescription conflicts.

"We are always looking for new ways to improve our patient care and having the right technology is very important," commented Francisco Luis Caceres, Coordinator of SES’s JARA project.

"Autonomy’s innovative software will help eliminate the potential risks within the prescription process by proactively sending alerts to medical staff without the need to perform manual searches or checks. This will help our doctors and pharmacists to work more efficiently."

"We are delighted to deliver innovative technology to benefit the healthcare industry," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "It is an honour to know that our technology will be used to improve the efficiency of healthcare professionals and enable a higher level of medical care."

Based in Merida, SES currently employs more than 13,000 people and is responsible for the entire regional healthcare infrastructure.