Guy’s and St Thomas’ chooses Epic as ‘preferred supplier’ for £175m EHR
- 9 October 2020
One of the biggest NHS trusts in London has selected Epic as its ‘preferred supplier’ for a new electronic health record (EHR) in a deal worth £175million.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust issued a tender in May 2019 which included a requirement for GPs to have direct access to the EHR, as well as having the option of linking up to King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and possibly Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
A spokesperson for the trust confirmed that Epic was its “preferred supplier”.
“Following a competitive procurement process, we have selected Epic as the preferred supplier for our new electronic health record system and are in the process of finalising contracts following approval of the full business case,” they said.
“We will announce further details in due course.”
Guy’s and St Thomas’ follow in the footsteps of a number of NHS trusts which have selected Epic in recent months. In August 2020, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust awarded an £108m EPR contract to Epic while in June 2020 Northern Ireland signed a £275m deal with the US company to supply electronic patient records across the country.
Before that, in May 2020, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) confirmed it had selected Epic to implement an EPR as well.
Epic’s flurry of contract wins across the NHS was the topic of a Digital Health Unplugged podcast with the news team looking into why so many trusts are looking to the supplier.
The team also looked at why so many trusts are choosing Epic when it is not on NHSX’s EPR framework.
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How do Trusts evaluate Epic as the best “value for money” solution? Has anyone seen a procurement evaluation which shows why this much more expensive option is the better choice?
Only now 1998 was when money was earmarked for epr .22 years ago.
Ryan. Not true. Many NHS hospitals have had EPR from 2005. Homerton University Hospital is a case in point. GSTT is simply upgrading.
Well, the overwhelming majority of NHS trusts still depend on archaic ways. I would not compare the US because frankly, they have too much money in their system and hence can afford stuff, Canada though is very similar to the UK and they have had fully digitized hospital systems almost everywhere almost 6. years ago. In the NHS only Cambridge had like a fully digitized hospital that too in 2013
Canadian systems are actually very far from being digitised. They’re going through that process right now. On a HIMSS EMRAM scale, most hospitals have been around a three. They’ve had systems in place but never really got the adoption and value out of them over the last 20 years.
So they didnt have one till yet. Its 2021 and so many NHS trusts are still getting to know about something called as EPRs when countries like US/CAN had started this journey in 2008
Canadian systems are actually very far from being digitised. They’re going through that process right now. On a HIMSS EMRAM scale, most hospitals have been around a three. They’ve had systems in place but never really got the adoption and value out of them over the last 20 years.
Well, that’s sad to know. Uk still has an economy double the size of Canada yet still can’t manage to do it quickly. Sad innit
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