FoI Number
2022-829
Subject
Procurement of Digital Systems
Date Received
28/03/2023
Request and Response

Please enter 'No System Installed' or ‘No Department’ under supplier name if your trust does not use the system or have the department:

1. System type – Discharge Letters

Supplier name –

No system installed

System name -

Date installed -

Contract expiration -

Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No Procurement framework - Other systems it integrates with? – Total value of contract (£) – Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender

NHS Shetland plans to use the Discharge module available within the Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA) system procured by the North of Scotland Health Boards.

2. System name - Diagnostic Reporting

Date installed –

No system currently

Contract expiration -

Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No Procurement framework - Other systems it integrates with? – Total value of contract (£) – Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender

 

3. System type –Digital Dictation

Supplier name –

Voice Technologies

System name –

WinVoice

Date installed –

Circa 2014

Contract expiration –

annual renewal

Is this contract annually renewed? –

Yes

Do you currently have plans to replace this system? –

No

Procurement framework – None/unknown

Other systems it integrates with? –

SCIStore, EDT

Total value of contract (£) –

Approx £16,000 per annum

Notes -

 

4. System type –Bed Management

Supplier name

Intersystems & NHS Grampian

System name –

Trakcare

Date installed –

2012

Contract expiration -

Is this contract annually renewed? –

No

Do you currently have plans to replace this system? –

No

Procurement framework –

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Contracts/Contracts_View.aspx?id=554509

Other systems it integrates with? –

SCI Store, CHI, HEPMA

Total value of contract (£) –

NHS Shetland circa £80,000 per annum

Notes –

We procured this system via a CCN of NHS Grampian contract with Intersystems

System definitions:

Discharge Letters - the ability to electronically generate and send detailed discharge letters to GPs and other relevant HCPs,  when a patient is discharged from hospital-based services.

Diagnostic Reporting - test results which are electronically transmitted to the clinician who ordered them, with receipt acknowledgement.

Digital Dictation - device used for recording and managing natural speech, allowing staff to verbally input a patients' note into a system without having to manually input it.

Bed Management - real-time bed states are viewable and accessible, enabling more efficient management of bed occupancy and patient movements.