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Medical Device Integration

Reference: 24-25097

Date response sent: 26/06/2024

Details of enquiry

Medical Device Integration

  1. Is the Trust HIMMS accredited? If so, what level of accreditation has been achieved?
  2. Does the organisation have an existing Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system? If yes, please provide details of the EPR product, including the provider and product name.
  3. When is the renewal date for the current EPR system?
  4. Does the Trust have a solution in place to automatically send patient data from medical devices to the main Hospital Information System / EPR?
  5. Is there a single interoperability platform for all medical devices that automatically sends data to the main hospital information system?
  6. If yes to question 5, who is the supplier and what is the name of the product?
  7. If yes to question 5, when does the current contract end?
  8. Is the Trust reviewing any projects that require the integration of medical devices with the main hospital information system / EPR?
  9. If no to question 5, is the Trust currently evaluating suppliers and product options for medical device interoperability with the main hospital information system (PAS/EPR)?
  10. If no to question 5, is the Trust interested in learning about Enovacom’s software-only solution and how other NHS customers are adopting our technology?
  11. Who is the lead person to contact regarding projects of this nature? Typically, we would connect with the Chief Clinical Information Officer, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, or EPR Programme Director.

Enterprise Application Integration

  1. Does the Trust currently have an integration engine for securely exchanging data between software systems both internally and externally?
  2. If yes to question 12, what is the product name?
  3. If yes to question 12, do you intend to change your current integration engine?
  4. If yes to question 14, when does the contract for your current integration engine end?
  5. If no to question 12, do you intend to purchase an integration engine?
  6. If yes to question 16, when do you plan to purchase it?
  7. Who is the lead person to contact about projects of this nature? Please provide their name, email, and phone number if possible.

Data Warehouse

Our existing NHS clients must share a basic level of data with their main ICS (Integrated Care System). They have chosen a Federated Model over a single centralised data repository in a regional external HIE solution, due to the sensitivity of some patient data. In this model, they maintain their own local FHIR-based data repository on-premises and provide a reference to the file to the regional HIE.

There are three main architecture patterns for delivering a Shared Care Record to share data with the ICS. Please identify the Trust’s chosen option:

  1. Centralised Model – Data is stored in a centralised, consolidated data repository. Data shared by HIE participants is normalised, housed in, and accessed from a central data repository.
  2. Federated Model (also known as Distributed Model) – Data is held at source in a decentralised manner. Each participant maintains separate control of its data, typically in special “edge servers” at its own location, and shares patient-specific data upon request from other HIE participants.
  3. Hybrid Model – A combination of a & b. Builds on the Federated Model by adding a “record locator service” that tracks where patients have received care and where their source data can be requested.

Does the Trust currently have a data repository for the above requirement if selecting b or c?

  1. If yes, is it FHIR-based?
  2. What is the name of the product?
  3. Who is the supplier?
  4. When is the contract renewal date?
  5. Is the Trust looking to purchase a data repository?
  6. If yes, when does it plan to purchase it?
  7. Who is responsible for sourcing the data repository? (Please provide name, email, and phone number if possible.)

Response sent

  1. Is the Trust HIMMS accredited? If so, what level of accreditation has been achieved?

No

  1. Does the organisation have an existing Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system? If yes, please provide details of the EPR product, including the provider and product name.

Yes, Carenotes by Advanced Health and Care Ltd

  1. When is the renewal date for the current EPR system?

31/07/24 Renewal is currently in progress with the supplier

  1. Does the Trust have a solution in place to automatically send patient data from medical devices to the main Hospital Information System / EPR?

No.  We are not a hospital.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health Trust.  We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological, services.  We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, or medical devices.

  1. Is there a single interoperability platform for all medical devices that automatically sends data to the main hospital information system?

No.  See response to Q4 above

  1. If yes to question 5, who is the supplier and what is the name of the product?

Not applicable

  1. If yes to question 5, when does the current contract end?

Not applicable

Is the Trust reviewing any projects that require the integration of medical devices with the main hospital information system / EPR?

No.  See response to Q4 above

  1. Is the Trust reviewing any projects that require the integration of medical devices with the main hospital information system / EPR?

No

  1. If no to question 5, is the Trust currently evaluating suppliers and product options for medical device interoperability with the main hospital information system (PAS/EPR)?

No.  See response to Q4 above

  1. If no to question 5, is the Trust interested in learning about Enovacom’s software-only solution and how other NHS customers are adopting our technology?

We do not hold this data.  The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) applies to recorded information that exists at the time of the request.  It does not require an authority to answer questions where this would involve the creation of new information, and this question can only be answered by creating new information.

  1. Who is the lead person to contact regarding projects of this nature? Typically, we would connect with the Chief Clinical Information Officer, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, or EPR Programme Director.

The Procurement Manager, procurement@tavi-port.nhs.uk

  1. Does the Trust currently have an integration engine for securely exchanging data between software systems both internally and externally?

Yes

  1. If yes to question 12, what is the product name?

Rapsody

  1. If yes to question 12, do you intend to change your current integration engine?

No,

  1. If yes to question 14, when does the contract for your current integration engine end?

Not applicable

  1. If no to question 12, do you intend to purchase an integration engine?

Not applicable

  1. If yes to question 16, when do you plan to purchase it?

Not applicable

  1. Who is the lead person to contact about projects of this nature? Please provide their name, email, and phone number if possible.

The Procurement Manager, procurement@tavi-port.nhs.uk

There are three main architecture patterns for delivering a Shared Care Record to share data with the ICS. Please identify the Trust’s chosen option:

a. Centralised Model – Data is stored in a centralised, consolidated data repository. Data shared by HIE participants is normalised, housed in, and accessed from a central data repository.

 

b. Federated Model (also known as Distributed Model) – Data is held at source in a decentralised manner. Each participant maintains separate control of its data, typically in special “edge servers” at its own location, and shares patient-specific data upon request from other HIE participants.

 

c. Hybrid Model – A combination of a & b. Builds on the Federated Model by adding a “record locator service” that tracks where patients have received care and where their source data can be requested.

Not applicable

Does the Trust currently have a data repository for the above requirement if selecting b or c?

Not applicable

  1. If yes, is it FHIR-based?
  2. What is the name of the product?
  3. Who is the supplier?
  4. When is the contract renewal date?
  5. Is the Trust looking to purchase a data repository?
  6. If yes, when does it plan to purchase it?
  7. Who is responsible for sourcing the data repository? (Please provide name, email, and phone number if possible.)

Responses for Q 19-25 are ‘not applicable’

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