Crawley centre chooses Adastra
Crawley Urgent Treatment Centre has become the latest in a long line
of NHS walk-in and urgent-care centres to choose Adastra Software as its
system supplier.
The new centre, based at Crawley Hospital in West Sussex, has elected
to network into the existing Adastra system used by Thamesdoc, the
operational hub service that provides urgent and out-of-hours care
services to Surrey and parts of Hampshire and West Sussex.
The centre believes that use of Adastra as
a common case-management system will greatly improve continuity of care.
The Thamesdoc system not only extends across all local GP out-of-hours
services, its Adastra database also links in with NHS Direct and GP
surgery systems.
According to Adastra, over half of all NHS walk-in centres and many
urgent-care and treatment centres are now either using or planning to
use the software to manage their operations. Nearly all of these
services, says the supplier, have elected to do so by becoming integral
with the wider urgent care environment established by operational hubs
such as Thamesdoc.
Adastra Chief Executive Lynn Woods underlines the appeal of using a
common system to drive forward with service integration: “Urgent-care
centres need shared access to a common IT system which is so versatile
it can support processes that are user-definable right down to a
particular case type, user identity or location. That is what we have
achieved.”
The new service in Crawley follows in the footsteps of a similar
facility in Redhill, which started work in 2005, also networked into the
Thamesdoc system.
Ashford, Kent-based Adastra will be exhibiting at stand C10 at the
forthcoming HC2007 exhibition in Harrogate (19–21 March).
Source: bjhc&im March 2007
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