Pennine trust chooses EuroKing Miracle
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has extended the use of its
EuroKing Miracle maternity system to support its four hospitals — the
Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary, North Manchester General
Hospital and Fairfield General Hospital in Bury — in the largest
installation of its kind in the UK.
The new system, which integrates with hospital IT infrastructure
already in use at three of the four hospitals, will enable the Trust to
provide greater continuity of care across all four sites — and improved
service to the 10,000 mothers that pass through its wards each year.
The decision to implement the EuroKing Miracle system, which uses
Massachusetts-based InterSystems’ Caché post-relational database, was
driven by the Pennine’s need for increased standardisation after the
four hospitals were merged into one trust in 2002.
Prior to the merger, three of the sites had developed their own
bespoke maternity implementations based on the EuroKing software. North
Manchester General Hospital, however, had no obstetric IT system in
place at all.
“We have been delighted with the EuroKing Miracle solution”, said
John Lindars, Divisional Director for Women and Children’s Services at
the Trust. “Now that we have rolled out this first phase of the
implementation, we want to look at other ways we can use the system. We
are keen to expand it out to additional outposts within the community,
such as community midwives, for example, through the use of web-enabled
handheld devices. Such solutions will help us continue to provide truly
effective care for mothers and babies.”
EuroKing Miracle’s head office is in Addlestone, Surrey.
Source: bjhc&im April 2006
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