Salford Royal wants to create a digital control centre
- 5 June 2017
A leading global digital exemplar trust is looking for a partner to create a “digital control centre”.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust issued a notice on 23 May to find a supplier to create a centre that focuses on data analytics and digital health.
The prior information notice said: “Salford Royal is looking to the future of healthcare and wants to establish a digital control centre, bringing the latest advances in data analytics and digital health to achieve a world-leading organisation.”
The trust is looking to be a “test bed for the digital control centre”, with plans to grow potentially across the rest of the NHS.
The notice is divided into lots which includes hardware, software package and information systems and medical software package.
It said that the trust wants to build on its GDE status with the digital control centre.
Salford Royal was selected as one of the original GDE acute trusts in September, and is considered one of the most digitally advanced trusts in England. Digital Health Intelligence ranks Salford 36 out of 153 trusts for digital maturity on the clinical digital maturity index (CDMI)
Salford runs on Allscripts’ Sunrise Clinical Manager electronic patient record, which it deployed in 2013.
In 2014, the trust said it wanted to use the EPR to create a fully integrated health and care record across the city of Salford.
The Manchester-based trust also called for the whole of the city to use digital pathology services, following a successful pilot with Sectra in May 2015.
Salford runs on Allscripts’ Sunrise Clinical Manager electronic patient record, which it deployed in 2013.
In 2014, the trust said it wanted to use the EPR to create a fully integrated health and care record across the city of Salford.
There is a market engagement event for the new digital control centre at the trust on 22 June.
Salford has a workforce of 7,000 and provides local services to the City of Salford and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.
The trust declined to comment on the funding, working practice or timeline of the digital control centre for this story.
2 Comments
I imagine this is about building a ‘command centre’ that focusses real time on the operation and patient flow of the Trust rather than retrospective performance data as per Johns Hopkins in the USA – see https://youtu.be/kBqKjlPGE6I
This is a good approach but in my personal and honest opinion some data analytics needs to be done locally but for reasons of standardization and efficiency (e.g. when measuring performance against nationally set targets, such as RTT and A&E duration’s, i.e. Referral to Treatment times and time spent in A&E waiting to be seen) the majority should be done, top down, nationally … NHS Digital ? There are over 230 NHS Trusts all being paid for by taxpayers. Lots of work @ the national level … yes, but best to get all the requirements in right from the start. Hope that makes sense.
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