Twelve of Scotland’s NHS boards have now gone live with InterSystems TrakCare, with NHS Forth Valley the latest to deploy.
The deployment means 12 of the 14 NHS boards in Scotland are live using TrakCare to provide thousands of healthcare professionals access to vital patient information.
Forth Valley migrated three separate legacy patient administration, emergency department and inpatient clinical systems into TrakCare, to create a single electronic record.
Mr Andrew Murray, medical director at NHS Forth Valley, said “Clinical engagement has been key in our initial go-live and we will continue to refine how TrakCare fits into patient flow and clinical workflow, to ensure our busy clinicians have easy access to the information they need.”
The company said, the complex go-live was successfully achieved over the course of a single weekend in April 2019, following an intensive period of planning and development, that involved data migration from older systems, configuration around working practices, and training for thousands of staff with a team of just 20 people.
Rowen Paton, eHealth and digital programme delivery manager, NHS Forth Valley, said “Our small eHealth team, in partnership with frontline staff, has worked tirelessly to deliver this important milestone that will help us meet ambitions in our digital delivery plan, and lay the foundations for a single electronic record that will eventually benefit our whole healthcare system. We will continue to develop how the system is used, so that we can build on the board’s existing paper light achievements, drive up data quality further and ease important communication between staff.”
Charles King, InterSystems lead in Scotland, said “NHS Forth Valley has long been forward thinking in digital health, and should be applauded for this latest project in which the board’s highly motivated eHealth team has managed an impressive delivery of digital technology. Having already seen the board engage with other NHS organisations in Scotland that use TrakCare, we look forward to NHS Forth Valley becoming an integral member of the TrakCare community, so that through collaboration, the NHS can make the best use of digital technology and joined up information.”
