Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has shared a prior information notice regarding planned procurement of an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) solution, with specification that the solution will be cloud-based and suitable for use within all care settings.
The supplier will be required to work as a strategic partner alongside the trust to “develop and innovate” the product, with particular focus on developing interoperability between external systems. It must offer functionality to interoperate within multiple dispensing systems based outside the trust with numerous acute partners; and must currently be used in an existing NHS trust, preferably within a mental health or community setting.
Other requirements include paperless prescribing for prescription charts; direct links with the patient demographics spine; compliance with Mental Health Act requirements relating to medication prescription and administration; ability to digitally transfer medication to multiple EPRs for inclusion within the discharge summary; smartcard authentication; organisation-specific configuration; and the ability to supply a full automated data download.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare will be holding three virtual market engagement sessions on 6, 13 and 15 November. To find out more, please click here.
Wider procurement news
Yesterday we reported how NHS Scotland extended its £4 million contract with Medtronic for a colon capsule endoscopy managed service; with an estimated value of £400,000, the extension is granted for a six-month period to allow Medtronic to complete “the final number of funded procedures”.
From Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB, we noted a market engagement notice indicating plans to deliver a digital front door to act as a single entry point for citizens and provide access to a range of products, services and partners supporting the coordination of personalised, centralised and efficient care.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, along with Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, have issued a tender sharing their intention to establish a framework for a data partner to support their unified electronic patient record programme.
Also from the region
In the summer, we covered the news that Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust implemented a technology platform designed to monitor and reduce air pollution at its hospitals, providing “next-generation real-time visibility” into the sources of pollution across hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester.
Summer also brought news that Isle of Wight NHS Trust went live with its patient portal for digital outpatient appointment letters.
