Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

This edition of Digital Health’s roundup of contracts and go lives includes Isle of Wight NHS Trust launching a digital consent platform created by former Rewired Pitchfest finalist Concentric Health.

NHS Orkney to go live with Cambric Morse EPR app in 2025

NHS Orkney has announced plans to go live with Cambric Systems’ Morse electronic patient record (EPR) app in 2025 to provide easy access to patient data for staff.

The deal with Cambric Systems, a supplier of healthcare patient data software solutions used in secondary and community-based healthcare setting across Scotland, was completed in September 2024 following an evaluation.

Cambric told Digital Health News that it is working with NHS Orkney to map out the deployment and expects to go live with the first services in early 2025.

The app will initially be used by community mental health teams before being rolled out to other healthcare professionals, including nurses and physiotherapists.

Patient engagement portal rolled out across Black Country Integrated Care System (ICS)

Black Country ICS is rolling out a patient engagement portal (PEP) from Healthcare Communications with the aim of improving patient experience, reducing waiting lists and saving money.

The PEP will start to be implemented at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust by the end of 2025, following go lives at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in March 2023, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust in March 2024, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust in July 2024.

Each trust is using the patient portal platform to deliver digital appointment letters and attachments to people’s smartphones and provide the ability for patients to book and change or cancel appointments.

Isle of Wight to launch digital consent platform from Pitchfest finalist

Isle of Wight NHS Trust has announced that it is launching a digital consent platform created by former Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest finalist Concentric Health.

The Concentric Health solution, which is planned to go live in October 2024, uses a secure link sent by email and/or text message to allow patients to consent for procedures using a computer, tablet or phone and easily share detailed treatment and recovery information with friends and family.

In a statement on its website, published on 24 September 2024, the trust said that it is enhancing its consent processes “in response to patient feedback”, to help patients make informed decisions about their treatment.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital to roll out Epic EHR in 2025

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has announced plans to implement the Epic electronic health record (EHR), following funding approval by NHS England.

The roll out is expected to take place in November 2025 across all three of the trust’s sites: the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, the Bolsover Street Outpatient Assessment Centre, and the Enfield Musculoskeletal Community Health Hub.

Epic’s EHR will replace paper records and many of the current clinical systems at RNOH with a single, fully integrated clinical record, with the aim of enabling staff to access accurate and up-to-date patient information.

Dartford and Gravesham goes live with Better Meds ePMA

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the Better Meds electronic prescribing and medicine management (ePMA) system and integrated it into its EPR system.

Inpatient wards at Darent Valley Hospital rolled out the system over a weekend in July 2024, with the aim of making it safer, faster and easier to prescribe and administer medicines.

During the two days, a dedicated clinical team transcribed more than 500 paper drug charts and 8,000 prescriptions into the system. As each ward went live, and the first e-prescribing and ePMA drug rounds took place, a team of superuser digital heroes were on hand assisting staff through the process.