Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has opened a market engagement, looking for a standalone clinical noting module that can help to improve their digital maturity, ahead of the potential rollout of national EHR solution(s).
Listing a number of requirements for the digital notes module, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has highlighted interoperability as a key part of their research, outlining how the solution must support data flows to and from a number of major applications. This includes PMS (in-house acute PAS), PARIS (MH and community PAS), emergency unit application, ward clinical work station, bed management and patient tracking, e-triage, EPMA, Adastra, Terrafix and other national Welsh applications and data resources.
The system will mainly be used by physicians, with the aim to potentially expand it to MDTs, nurses, AHPs and other areas of adult and paediatric sectors within secondary care, community care and/or mental health.
As part of this early engagement process, NHS Wales shared services is looking for a digital notes solution that has already been trialled and implemented in other healthcare environments, inviting suppliers to spend up to 1.5 hours demonstrating their products to a “group of clinical, operational and digital colleagues” in order to inform their market intelligence.
This will reportedly help them to “write an informed and robust (pre-procurement) business case” and understand estimated costs before making a “positive decision” and moving forward with a 5-year plan from 2026/2027. As such, interested suppliers are invited to provide their demonstrations for the last week of June 2025, which you can learn more about here.
Improving digital maturity across Wales: the wider trend
Digital Health and Care Wales recently opened a market engagement exercise looking at the product availability for an integrated care record to be used across NHS Wales. This included learning more information about the digital solutions that can help “to ensure that patients and citizens benefit from access to health and care information, regardless of where it is created or stored”, while also offering the added value of providing data protection and information-sharing policies across health and care in the region.
In April, Care Inspectorate Wales launched an inspection rating system for care services to help “better understand the quality of care provided” and support informed decisions. The system evaluates four key areas: wellbeing; care and support; leadership and management; and the environment, determining whether the services provided are excellent, good, require improvement or require significant improvement.
Earlier this year, five projects across Northern Ireland and Wales were awarded a share of £1 million as part of the SBRI Cancer Challenge. This included, CYTED Ltd’s early disease detection with non-endoscopic diagnostic technology; IBEX Medical Analytics Ltd’s AI-powered diagnostics for pathology; Cansense Ltd’s AI-based modelling for bowel cancer testing; Qure AI Technologies Ltd’s algorithms to increase speed and efficiency with AI triage; and Future Perfect Healthcare Ltd’s pre-cancer registry which identifies at-risk patients using genomic testing of tumours and clinical data.
