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IBA wins £5 million deal with General Healthcare Group
2 May 2008
General Healthcare Group (GHG), the largest provider of independent
healthcare services in the UK, has appointed IBA subsidiary iSOFT as a
strategic health information technology partner. Further, GHG will
license and implement iSOFT’s patient management systems at its 47 BMI
Healthcare private acute care hospitals and its Netcare centres in a
deal worth £5 million over six years.
Additional services will be provided over the life of the agreement
for development, implementation and deployment services. The agreement
also provides the framework for licensing and implementation of
additional iSOFT products. The agreement provides a strategic framework
for GHG and iSOFT to work closely together as iSOFT makes available its
next generation of products.
In addition, GHG has appointed iSOFT as its preferred supplier for
clinical IT systems, to include order communications and results
reporting as well as other systems to support its growing business.
iSOFT will be working closely with GHG as a partner to ensure fast-track
deployment of these critical business solutions.
As the largest provider of independent healthcare services in the UK,
GHG is upgrading to iSOFT’s iPM Patient Administration System as part of
its overhaul of IT systems and infrastructure. The GHG group will
implement iPM across its national network of BMI Healthcare hospitals as
well as its Netcare centres, integrating patient management, billing and
back-office functionality within a single suite of software.
iPM will streamline the current patient administration processes,
reduce the dependency on paper records and include core theatre and
billing data into a single electronic record. This repository of
information will form the basis of a patient’s electronic healthcare
record for the GHG network of facilities.
Paul Richards, Managing Director of iSOFT UK and Ireland, said, “This
follows a number of strategic meetings with GHG to ensure that our
organisation was in alignment with GHG to support their industry-leading
strategy. This agreement reinforces our position as one of the top
suppliers of state of the art health IT systems to the private
healthcare sector and puts iSOFT in a prime position to capitalise on
new opportunities in this sector.”
GHG includes BMI Healthcare, the largest independent provider of
acute surgical services in the UK.
Graham Knight, CIO, GHG said, “The implementation of iSOFT is a key
component in our strategy of improving the patient journey and giving
nurses, doctors and consultants the most flexibility in how they access
and share information.”
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