The West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) has carried out a summer roll out of Clinisys’ ICE OpenNet system for pathology and other diagnostic test results.
ICE systems have now been implemented and linked to each other at five of the association’s six NHS trusts: Bradford Teaching Hospitals, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Harrogate and District, Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Mid Yorkshire Hospitals.
Airedale is set to follow during the winter.
Cinisys said the roll out has taken place in a complex IT environment, with each of the trusts having a different electronic patient record system. It has also been one of the biggest implementations of ICE OpenNet in the country, with the trusts employing a total of 50,000 staff and ordering over 50 million tests per year.
Working as a network
Its LIMS implementation manager, Janine Bontoft, said: “The priority for any pathology network is to work as a network and to share information for the benefit of clinicians and patients.
“We have been rolling out a single laboratory information management system (LIMS) from Clinisys, which supports standardised ways of working and information sharing for pathologists. However, the LIMS doesn’t share results with clinicians. ICE does that, and ICE OpenNet is a cost-effective way to make results available to more clinicians, so they can support patients across the network.”
The WYAAT pathology network is looking at how it can share results with neighbouring primary and community organisations and with the local shared care record, which includes data from a wider range of trust, GP and local authority systems.
