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Solution providers at the Healthcare IT Exchange™ are selected based on the requirements and interests of IM&T professionals. The following solution provider categories are being sought for this Exchange for business meetings with our delegates.

For more info on Solution Provider opportunities, please call +44 207 368 9709

2010 Solution Providers:

Acumentive
Website: www.acumentive.com

Acumentive is a specialist RFID and RTLS consultancy and systems integrator with over 100 years combined experience in the field. As the exclusive reseller in the UK for PCTS’ Amelior products, we offer a range of Workflow Orchestration solutions that demonstrably and successfully drive down costs and boost productivity, communication and efficiency whilst increasing patient safety and care time. Over 70 hospitals use these systems and there is a wealth of case studies and ROI studies to support the business case. Whether you are looking to manage assets, locate assets in real-time, drive theatre utilisation levels, cut agency staff usage, manage and monitor hand hygiene or just generally increase visibility of what is going on in your hospital for better manageability, there is a solution that will achieve this for you, in a fully automated fashion.

Cambio Healthcare Systems
Website: www.cambio.se/

Cambio Healthcare Systems is the market leader of healthcare IT solutions in Scandinavia and is now available to the NHS via the ASCC Framework contract. COSMIC is a suite of e-health applications delivered on a service oriented architecture (SOA). These applications have been designed to support healthcare processes across a large geographic area by all types of healthcare providers.

The largest COSMIC implementations have in excess of 20,000 users on a single system installed across primary and secondary care from general practices (GPs) to University Hospitals. COSMIC consists of care administration (PAS), care documentation, business intelligence, order management, e-prescribing, maternity, theatre management, accident and emergency (A&E) and mental health modules.

COSMIC can be implemented as a single vendor solution ('rip and replace') or on a module by module basis integrated with existing legacy systems. This enables NHS Trusts to target the areas of their business that have the most need whilst providing a long term roadmap for a completely integrated electronic health record.

Cambio COSMIC - One patient, one record.

First DataBank
Website: www.firstdatabank.co.uk

First DataBank is the UK’s leading provider of drug knowledge bases and active clinical decision support. With over 30 years’ experience of maintaining, developing and integrating drug knowledge bases across the entire healthcare spectrum, First DataBank has unrivalled expertise and knowledge in this specialist field. NHS Connecting for Health has chosen First DataBank to provide drug-related clinical decision support.

Patient safety is the driving force behind our business. Through the effective integration of our products into clinical systems, we enable safer prescribing, dispensing and administration.

Our Multilex Drug Data File – the UK’s most comprehensive and widely used drug knowledge base – is in daily use by thousands of healthcare professionals in the UK.

Juniper Networks
Website: www.juniper.net

Juniper Networks® delivers innovative software, silicon, and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking for global service providers, leading enterprises, and public sector organisations. Our core routers, switches, and security hardware and software run the world’s largest and most demanding global networks.

Juniper is bringing new ideas and innovation to public sector networks to provide the extra capacity, security, and capabilities that are needed to meet the growing needs of government, but with a significantly lower cost base. This enables a fresh approach, which Juniper calls The New Network, to building public sector networks, data centres, office communications, and mobile working solutions across all areas of the public sector.

Kofax
Website: www.kofax.com

Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 1000 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

McKesson
Website:www.mckesson.com

McKesson, the trusted healthcare technology solutions and services provider, specialising in workforce, care management and clinical solutions has operated in the UK since 1991. McKesson delivers to virtually every NHS organisation and operates the world’s largest integrated HR and Payroll system – the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR).
McKesson has developed a powerful suite of information management systems and other support services to help its customers meet NHS standards for the quality and safety of patient care. The healthcare solutions portfolio includes InterQual®, the world-class evidence-based clinical decision support tool for ensuring the right levels of care to meet local population need; Horizon Enterprise Visibility™, the enterprise-wide visual control system to improve patient flow, capacity and bed management; CarePlus Child Health, currently the number one choice for child health informatics; and assistive technology solutions to support the proactive outreach of patients with long-term conditions.

Following the news that McKesson will continue its support for a further four years in respect of the 26 NHS Trusts currently running McKesson patient administration systems (PAS), McKesson has confirmed it is introducing its proven, next generation Hospital Information System (HIS)/PAS to the UK. This will be delivered using a multi-staged deployment strategy that will enable Trusts to realise early benefits in accordance with their requirements and timescales.

McKesson UK is a subsidiary of McKesson Corporation, which is currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500 Throughout the world, McKesson is a company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care.

Plumtree Group
Website: plumtreegroup.com

Partnering Healthcare clients, Plumtree Group encompasses over 30 years experience of information management. The company has developed solutions covering the whole range of document and records management functions, order communications requesting and reporting plus solutions for infection control incorporating a real time clinical dashboard.

The dartEDM range includes the scanning and management of patient records, diagnostic images and reports and the whole range of documents used throughout the NHS. Currently dartEDM holds in excess of 500million NHS documents throughout the UK.

Our Order Communications software is probably the largest deployment in the UK with over 15,000 samples per day being processed covering 4 PCT’s and 5 acute hospitals in the Lincolnshire and Humber area. With an 18 month deployment from start to finish including the training of over 200GP practices it is also one of the quickest.

Our new infection control system provides real benefits at both an operational and enterprise level. With automated tasks allocated to IC nurses from positive results, mobile working in both the acute and community plus a real time clinical dashboard for the Saving lives initiative the software provides real improvements in patient care and an aggressive return on investment.

Plumtree Group managing your information.

Softech
Website: www.softechglobal.com

Softech Global Limited Company Profile

Softech Global Ltd is a leading provider of digital dictation, voice recognition (real time and background) and outsourced transcription services. Softech gained highest scoring in the Yorkshire and Humber Framework Procurement out of 18 suppliers for digital dictation and voice recognition, value £20M. Softech has recently been selected as one of 7 companies on Irish Framework agreement for the above services.

Softech has invested over £2M in R & D to provide NOMAD, a total solution to meet NHS administrative and clinical needs, as independent seamlessly integrated modules. NOMAD can provide savings in excess of £3M per year due to fully automated and functionally rich workflow. These savings can be shown by incorporating Trust specific figures into a cost benefit analysis model. The NOMAD solution is simple to use and stores all documents in a centralised database for fast on line retrieval. Letters are stored as data and as such can be extensively searched (including the text of each letter). When integrated with medical dictionaries such as ICD10, OPCS4, BNF and SNOMED CT the solution provides automated clinical coding capabilities as well as valuable information for research, litigation and operational billing purposes. NOMAD is a proven Trust wide solution running in a number of NHS Trusts.

The Thinking People Group
Website:www.thethinkingpeople.com

The Thinking People Group work in partnership with healthcare providers nationwide to ensure they have sufficient capability and capacity to implement complex change projects including service improvement, IT systems, restructures and mergers, effectively.

We provide integrated consultancy, solutions, interim resourcing and training that enable our clients to achieve their business goals and to transform their business through its people: skills, capability and knowledge transfer are fundamental to everything we do.

Change is a necessary and positive part of delivering Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) as the NHS builds on 60 years of service and continues to be a world class healthcare provider of the future.

Our approach focuses each NHS organisation on its Core Purpose and Strategic Objectives. Only when these are clearly defined and understood is it possible to deliver credible, consistent and sustainable change.