East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has selected its preferred electronic patient record supplier for EPR programme EmPoweR, which will be designed to bring together inpatient and outpatient data, ePMA, order comms and theatres into a single EPR.
Nervecentre has been selected as the preferred supplier, marking the ninth acute trust to join Nervecentre’s cloud-native platform. East Sussex Healthcare highlights expectations that the availability of accurate data along with having a “comprehensive range” of EPR functions in one location “will help the trust make the working lives of its staff easier and more productive, while also improving the patient experience”.
Andy Bissenden, associate director of digital, comments that the selection of Nervecentre will “bring us a modern and truly mobile, next-generation EPR to deliver better outcomes for patients and our operational/clinical teams”.
EPRs: the wider trend
Related news includes York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust announcing their preferred supplier for their integrated EPR systems in the summer, with Nervecentre to deploy its cloud-native platform for both trusts.
Last month HTN noted how United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust shared its own preferred EPR supplier subject to contract and approval of full business case.
NHS England shared plans to expand the existing support offer available through ‘Tiger Teams’ designed to support EPR delivery across England.
Also in October, we highlighted how two Essex trusts shared plans to establish a framework for a data partner to support their unified EPR programme; and we published a special report exploring EPR news, views, insights, research and more here.
Further insights around EPRs from health tech professionals are available through our coverage of our live event series, HTN Now, including panels on connecting care and extending EPR value through mobility and connected devices; and on planning for EPR optimisation.
We also recently asked our audience how many GP clinical systems (core electronic health record) suppliers they expect to see two years from now – click here to view the results.
