With 'delivery' as its mantra, this consortium puts IM&T at the heart of healthcare delivery by providing new clinical computer systems, world class IT training, frontline and second line support, technology deployment, business change and project management. The consortium was formed in April 2007 from five separate Primary Care Trust IM&T departments.
The Prescribing Information and Communication System team have created a rules-based clinical decision support system providing, at the bedside via wireless-linked tablet computers, a wide range of clinical functions including: drug prescribing and administration; results reporting and requesting; discharge documentation; order communications and observations charting.
Scottish Care Information-Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC) is a real time web-based clinical information system, supporting the care of all 228,000 people with diabetes in Scotland. SCI-DC supports inter-disciplinary team working, patient education, professional education, the national retinal screening programme and a suite of audit functionality for individual, practice, regional and national reporting. Its work has resulted in improved clinical outcomes nationally.
This virtual team has transformed a regional roll-out of an IT system into a truly national programme with national governance structures and effective multi-agency working. 106 out of 138 prisons are now using the system and the roll-out will be almost complete by the end of 2010.