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Released by CSW Group Ltd on 03/12/2007

Informing Healthcare has awarded a three-year contract to CSW Group Ltd to commence implementation of the Individual Health Record in out-of-hours care in north west Wales (Gwynedd and Anglesey) and south west Wales (Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion).

The Individual Health Record (IHR) will be based on CSW’s Case Notes product for electronic health records management which has already been proven in deployments in the NHS in England, in the National Programme for IT and in the Technical Proof of Concept (TPoC) for the IHR in Wales.

The new system will allow patient information held on GP practice computer systems to be viewed by medical staff in the local out-of-hours service. This will enable medical records to be shared and viewed by health professionals, wherever care takes place, to help make important clinical decisions about the best care and treatment of a patient. This improves patient safety and the quality of care.

The contract was awarded to CSW by Informing Healthcare following a competitive procurement process. The new service is scheduled to be available for the 390,000 patients in the north west and south west of Wales by spring 2008.

This implementation builds on the successful use of the Individual Health Record in out-of-hours care in the Gwent health community. The project is in line with both Informing Healthcare's strategy of incremental deployment of service improvements that produce patient benefits very quickly and the Welsh Assembly Government's Delivering Emergency Care Services (DECS) strategy.

For further information, visit http://www.wales.nhs.uk/ihc/page.cfm?pid=13294

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