EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Scotland is on its approach to changing into house to the UK’s largest linked laboratory medicine community, following the appointment of Citadel Health because the provider for NHS Scotland’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) framework.
The new software program will join NHS laboratory medicine labs and hospitals throughout Scotland. The community has the potential to hyperlink and streamline complicated scientific processes to enhance the affected person expertise for the inhabitants of Scotland.
Laboratory Medicine gives laboratory companies to major and secondary care centres throughout Scotland. Laboratories throughout nearly all of Boards carry out over 100 million exams per yr and make use of over 4,000 workers. Laboratories present a 24/7 scientific and medical laboratory service and a complete vary of investigations together with decentralised testing websites. Laboratory exams play a component in 70 – 80% of all well being care choices affecting prognosis of illness, remedy, and monitoring response to remedy.
LIMS is essential to the perform of Laboratory Medicine as it’s used to end result and report all major, secondary and tertiary laboratory requests acquired by Laboratory Medicine. It additionally gives functionality to create automation of workflows, integration of devices, and administration of samples and their related data. LIMS methods interface with a number of key native and national healthcare methods, for instance:
- Patient Administration Systems
- Electronic Patient Records
- Analytical Middleware
- Electronic Order Communication Systems
- Regional and National Systems
The 10-year partnership with Citadel Health has the prospect of dramatically enhancing diagnostic functionality throughout NHS Scotland by way of collaboration, national standardisation and improved methods.
By managing greater than 100 million specimen and take a look at requests processed every year by NHS Scotland’s pathology labs, the system has the potential to enhance equality in affected person entry, slicing duplication and liberating up clinicians to handle assets inside the community. Citadel Health’s Evolution vLab software program already helps NHS Trusts in England and Wales following latest tender wins.
The contract with Citadel Health displays the worldwide well being tech chief’s confirmed skill to function seamlessly throughout huge geographies, together with the Southern Hemisphere’s largest single occasion public well being LIMS.
Mary Morgan, Chief Executive at NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) mentioned:
“Enabling well being and social care transformation is one in every of our strategic priorities and this new partnership with Citadel Health represents a constructive step for laboratory medicine in Scotland – the place specializing in transformational change will lead to improved affected person expertise and larger effectivity, collaboration and connection throughout NHS Scotland boards.
“Our National Procurement workforce in NSS conducts national procurements and assists native implementation to assist NHS Scotland boards obtain the very best worth for cash on items and companies to help the important work of groups throughout NHS Scotland.”
Mike Gray, Laboratory Service Manager, NHS Lothian and Chair of the LIMS implementation programme, mentioned:
“The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity for seamless interfacing throughout methods and the flexibility to shortly pull information from an environment friendly and efficient LIMS on a national scale, so we sought a brand new LIMS provider. Being in a position to share standardised ends in actual time will allow efficient prognosis for sufferers throughout the entire of the NHS Scotland, paving the pathway for improved affected person outcomes.
“All boards concerned look ahead to working in partnership with Citadel Health to guarantee the brand new LIMS is developed to meet NHS Scotland necessities and safely deployed throughout all pathology laboratories and companies.”
Stephen Lynch, Executive General Manager at Citadel Health, mentioned:
“We are delighted to be partnering with NHS Scotland Boards keen to embrace our method of delivering important laboratory companies and bettering effectivity and streamlining standardisation. The rising demand for seamless scientific collaboration throughout diagnostic networks to enhance affected person outcomes illustrates why we stay the pure selection to evolve digital well being options throughout the UK.”
Impact in numbers
- Almost 6m inhabitants
- 100 million specimens and exams every year
- 93 labs in 29 geographic places networked
- 3700+ scientific customers
About Citadel Health
Citadel Health offers scientific groups the instruments to join, collaborate and optimise scientific pathways. Our deeply specialised well being software program helps modernise scientific workflows, remodeling choices, operations and high quality to enhance affected person entry and outcomes at scale. Visit citadelhealth.co.uk
SOURCE Citadel Health
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