Lorenzo Primary Care announced

ISoft executive chairman and chief executive Gary Cohen has announced that a Lorenzo Primary Care will be launched next year.

During a live link-up to E-Health Insider Live ’09, Cohen said iSoft would continue to develop its existing primary care products: Synergy, Ganymede, and Premiere.

But he added: “Today, I am pleased to announce that Lorenzo Primary Care will be available from Q4 2010.” Cohen said the new system would be targeted at the UK market, and that iSoft customers would be able to upgrade to it.

He indicated that the company would expect customers to move to the new system “over time.”

iSoft said the new Lorenzo Primary Care system would be offered direct to the market following its announcement last month that it would sell its hospital system Lorenzo Care Management direct to hospital trusts in the South.

The development is distinct from the primary care offering of Lorenzo Regional Care in the North, Midlands and East which CSC has committed to deliver in release 4, due to be delivered in 2012.

CSC plans to integrate Lorenzo Regional Care with TPP’s SystmOne, its current primary care solution, which it has widely deployed in the NME to enable hospitals taking Lorenzo Regional Care to communicate with local GP practices using SystmOne.

Simon Gill, solution director for iSoft, told EHI Primary Care that CSC would take the primary care solution developed by iSoft and adapt it for its needs to make it available to its customers in the NME as part of R4.

He added: “We are going ahead and developing the product which will be a primary care reference solution for a global market place.”

Gill said a lot of work had already been done on developing Lorenzo Primary Care as part of the work with CSC. He added that a dedicated development centre in Malaga, Spain, had been set up to work on the product.

Jon Hoeksma, editor of E-Health Insider, and chair of Cohen’s session, asked if Lorenzo Primary Care was being promised because iSoft had lost market share to competitors in the UK.

Cohen acknowledged that this had happened, but said Lorenzo Primary Care would not just be a UK product. “Obviously, we will also take it onto the global stage,” he said. “We are creating a global product.”