iSOFT wins UK & Melbourne deals with hospital information system

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 11:38

Business IT - Technology

Australia's largest listed health information technology company, IBA Health Group, has snapped up a major contract win in the UK with its international offshoot,  iSOFT, securing a deal to deploy its hospital information system for the National Health Service (NHS) trust in southern England.

IBA (ASX:IBA), which trades globally as iSOFT, today announced that the $5 million iSOFT contract with Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was for five years, and involves implementation of iSoFT’s i.Patient Manager (i.PM) PAS and a technical  refresh of an existing iSOFT clinical solution, i.Clinical Manager (i.CM).

In Melbourne, iSOFT also secured a $590,000 deal, with the St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital group, for its Integra suite of web-enabled finance and purchasing applications to improve financial management and control and reduce the time and costs of processing orders.

iSOFT’s Melbourne contract is for an end-to-end financial management and purchasing solution and a range of additional modules including document imaging, self-service requisitioning, and business intelligence, with the Integra solution also being integrated with an existing iSOFT web-based hospital information system to manage purchasing and billing of items, such as prosthetics.

In the UK, Jonathan Pearce, NHS’s director of infrastructure, said today the trust elected to contract directly with iSOFT for a replacement PAS instead of waiting for a solution under England’s national programme for IT.

Pearce said the contract with iSOFT was one of the first major deals in the Southern Cluster, which was formerly serviced by Fujitsu, and “we are delighted to be working with iSOFT on this very important programme for Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. “

“We already have a strong working relationship with iSOFT as we already use its clinical information system, i.CM. We very much value our partnership with iSOFT and look forward to strengthening this and working with the company to deliver the new PAS solution to the trust."
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