Healthcare IT solutions, services and consulting

Healthcare IT Services and Solutions

• NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS)

  To meet NHS Connecting for Health delivery of the NHS CRS, Cerner Millennium® is being deployed in a series of releases, each providing additional functionality over its predecessor. This step-by-step approach makes it easier for trusts to see their progress towards the standard system for IT in the NHS that needs to be deployed within the next few years

• Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS)

  Fujitsu Services, one of Europe’s leading it services companies, has gone live with the implementation of the new digital imaging system PACS (picture archiving and communications system) in thirty-eight nhs trusts in england

• Service Offerings

  Service Offer Management is responsible for the creation and management of offerings which extend the Fujitsu Health Care account product portfolio beyond the solutions delivered via the core LSP programme. The offerings are drawn from Fujitsu’s standard offerings and capabilities and selected ‘best of breed’ healthcare specific application and infrastructure solutions.

Healthcare Case studies

• Case study, NHS - Health and Efficiency

  Fujitsu Services, NHS account’s work with the NHS connecting for health – the department for health agency responsible for delivering the national programme for IT.

• Empowering healthcare, how Fujitsu is helping

  In order to meet the NHS 24 and 48 hour access targets, Waterside realised that it needed to transform its working practices. This project had two elements to it: the first being the delivery of a robust technology solution that would be simple to use, and adhere to strict NHS confidentiality guidelines. Secondly, the system needed to be presented in a way that focussed on patient care with new technologies enhancing interactivity, not hindering it.

• Fujitsu goes live with PACS - Healthcare Services Case Study

  Fujitsu Services, one of Europe’s leading it services companies, has gone live with the implementation of the new digital imaging system PACS (picture archiving and communications system) in thirty-eight NHS trusts in England, as well as thirty three NHS trusts implemented with RIS (radiology information system) under the NHS Connecting for Health National Programme for IT.

Healthcare Services Insights

• The Integrated Theatre Solution

  By streamlining workflow and capturing key patient data, the fully integrated theatres module in Release 1 (R1) contributes to: The delivery of improved patient care and greater overall efficiency. This will enable Trusts to meet key Government directives such as quicker access to care, improving patient safety and achieving robust financial control.

• Maternity Functionality

  The maternity functionality supports the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal management of women and babies both in the community and hospital settings. It is an integrated part of the patient care record, facilitating statutory and operational reporting and offers support for clinical reporting.

• Enabling modern healthcare

  Enabling modern healthcare - The healthcare industry faces huge challenges, with a wide range of ever increasing demands. Health services are under pressure to provide ever better service to an ever higher number of patients – often with fewer resources. The challenge for IT has to be to demonstrate value in practical terms acceptable to healthcare.

• Clinical Module

  The clinical module provides a range of functions to support acute and community based individuals or teams in planning, delivering and recording patient care throughout the patient journey. The clinical module can be accessed directly from the other Cerner Millennium modules, such as Accident & Emergency, and provides a range of views and features to support the NHS in achieving even better patient outcomes, increasing patient safety, meeting national targets and drivers and improving financial control.

• Child Health

  The integrated A&E solution facilitates the management and tracking of patients from admission - to either A&E or a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) - through to discharge or admission to hospital. By providing a timely, single source of information to the right people the solution supports NHS Trusts in meeting the 4 hour A&E target, receiving payment for work undertaken (Payment by Results) and improving patient flow overall.

• Accident & Emergency (A&E)

  The integrated A&E solution facilitates the management and tracking of patients from admission - to either A&E or a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) - through to discharge or admission to hospital. By providing a timely, single source of information to the right people the solution supports NHS Trusts in meeting the 4 hour A&E target, receiving payment for work undertaken (Payment by Results) and improving patient flow overall.

• A prescription for health

  RFID is transforming healthcare by reducing error, improving compliance and allowing patients, staff and equipment to be tracked accurately.

• Integrated Patient Administration System

  The Integrated Patient Administration System module is the foundation for the electronic health record, providing all the functions necessary to help you to manage your patients and their records in a range of health settings, including acute, mental health trusts and community environments. The integrated PAS solution supports patient registration and scheduling; facilitates bed management, infection control and tracking of patients from admission to hospital through to discharge or transfer. The PAS supports Trusts in meeting key Government targets including quicker access to care, achieving financial balance and continuous improvement.

• A Picture of Health - How technology is enabling a revolution in medical diagnosis.

  With the last elements of PACS operational, X-ray and other scans can be processed digitally and then shared electronically. The result is faster diagnosis and an end to lost films – something that’s an essential part of the UK government’s plan that no patient should wait more than 18 weeks between referral and treatment.

• Where are your pathology results?

  The benefit of creating more productive time is not just in meeting national targets. The real gain is in coping with complexity and delivery of better patient care.

• Returning the UK NHS to full Health

  The NHS is moving towards a more transparent health service, one that offers patients a level of information and choice. The specialist IT sector has a responsibility to support healthcare providers by ensuring delivery of facilities and infrastructure that let clinicians and managers respond to pressures and change the way services are accessed.

• Local Data Warehouse Solution

  NHS Trusts need to analyse business activity information from multiple sources, not just from what is available through the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS). Fujitsu Services recognises this need and is able to offer help and support through its ‘Local Data Warehouse’ solution.

• Electronic Document Management

  Patient safety incidents are costing NHS Trusts in England an estimated £2billion per annum in extra bed days. Estimates suggest that around half of these incidents could have been prevented. Fujitsu, in working with one Trust, identified a potential for 160 document types (based on the format of the old style paper record) which could form the electronic patient record.

Healthcare Press Releases

13 December 2006

100 million patient images stored

December 13, 2006 – Fujitsu Services, one of Europe’s leading IT Services companies, has today recorded the 100 millionth patient image stored in its data centre as part of the NHS Connecting for Health, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme. PACS enables access to the right image, in the right place, at the right time – all at the touch of a button.

24 June 2006

Fujitsu awarded £26 million contract from NHS Connecting for Health

June 24, 2006 – Fujitsu Services, NHS Account has been awarded a contract by NHS Connecting for Health to provide NHS Care Record Services as part of the National Programme for IT to the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust.

19 April 2006

Fujitsu awarded £41million Service Desk contract from NHS Connecting for Health

April 19, 2006 – Fujitsu Services has today been awarded a contract by NHS Connecting for Health to provide service desk support to both the National Programme for IT and local NHS Trusts.

2 July 2007

McKesson is Fujitsu’s Child Health Provider of Choice

London, July 2, 2007 – Healthcare IT systems specialists, McKesson, has announced it has been selected by the National Programme for IT’s (NPfIT) southern region Local Service Provider (LSP), Fujitsu Services, as its provider of choice for monitoring Child Health. McKesson’s CarePlus Child Health solution has been selected by Fujitsu to assist in connecting Child Health to the NPfIT objectives ahead of alternate systems from other suppliers which are currently not ready for deployment.

14 April 2007

Fujitsu and Kent & Medway sign pathology contracts

London, April 14, 2007 – Three Kent and Medway NHS Trusts have signed contracts totalling £5.5 million with Fujitsu Services to integrate PathNet with Cerner Millennium.

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