[London, UK] University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is currently recruiting applicants for the design and implementation of the Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
The platform is set to go live in April 2019 and the trust will work with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT (CUH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS FT (GOSH) to establish a collaborative framework and further efforts to improve their digital maturity.
The trust will buddy up with CUH through the Global Digital Exemplar scheme to become its fast follower.
“We will work with clinicians, operational staff and patients to ensure we create a system that works for everyone,” said Marcel Levi, the trust’s Chief Executive, earlier this year
The programme includes 18 trusts across the UK that will team up with 16 acute GDEs, with each fast follower receiving up to £5m that they will then have to match.
September board papers suggest the trust expects, if approved, to receive the first tranche of funding in December this year.
Dr Gill Gaskin, the trust’s Specialist Hospitals Board Medical Director, has been appointed as the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the EHR project, Natasha Phillips as Chief Nursing Information Officer and Dr Rishi Das Gupta as Director of Innovation.
New Chief Nursing Information Officer and Director of Innovation
The trust is also expected to finalise the recruitment process for a Chief Research Information Officer role, which will be jointly funded by the National Institute for Health Research and the EHR programme.
It will also appoint a number of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to support configuration of the system.
“Recruitment to programme management and development team posts (total of 130) is on-track,” board papers indicate.
Epic has appointed Greg Larson as the programme’s Implementation Director and Emily Tyne as the Implementation Executive.
This November, Atos, the trust’s ten year ICT contractor and systems integrator, will be tasked with the delivery of the Epic hardware platform, described as a ‘key milestone’.
“We will work with clinicians, operational staff and patients to ensure we create a system that works for everyone,” Marcel Levi, the trust’s Chief Executive, said earlier this year.
