{"id":43582,"date":"2014-12-08T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/?p=43582"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:48:40","slug":"cambridge-university-hospitals-epic-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/cambridge-university-hospitals-epic-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge University Hospitals&#8217; Epic \u00a3200m IT project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWeekly.com has published an article by me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Cambridge-University-Hospitals-NHS-Foundation-Trust-completes-200m-Epic-and-HP-IT-project\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s \u00a3200m installation<\/a> of software from Epic and hardware and networking kit from HP. I reckon I&#8217;m safe describing it as one of the biggest IT projects ever undertaken by a single NHS trust.<\/p>\n<p>A huge amount of work went into deciding how much to alter processes and how much to alter software. As chief clinical information officer Dr Afzal Chaudhry told me: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a question of fitting our hospital to the system, but fitting the system and the workflows to care for our patients.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite the National Programme for IT, what Cambridge University Hospitals has shown is that NHS organisations can do tech. It just takes a lot of work, crucially involving lots of clinicians cross-training to help set up the systems, with more than 100 staff going through Epic examinations. Dr Chaudhry added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe we\u2019ve made a good choice, and it can transition to other NHS institutions.\u201cI think what\u2019s challenging for the NHS is the model of having analysts upfront, funded properly. It\u2019s hard to find these people, but I think having our own people doing the configuration has been phenomenally successful. If we\u2019d skimped on people, or used people from outside, we wouldn\u2019t have done as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Cambridge-University-Hospitals-NHS-Foundation-Trust-completes-200m-Epic-and-HP-IT-project\" target=\"_blank\">Full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWeekly.com has published an article by me on Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s \u00a3200m installation of software from Epic and hardware and networking kit from HP. I reckon I&#8217;m safe describing it as one of the biggest IT projects ever undertaken by a single NHS trust. A huge amount of work went into deciding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/cambridge-university-hospitals-epic-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cambridge University Hospitals&#8217; Epic \u00a3200m IT project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,6,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-healthcare","category-hospitals","category-it"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cambridge University Hospitals&#039; Epic \u00a3200m IT project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Article for ComputerWeekly.com on Cambridge University Hospitals&#039; 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