George Eliot NHS Trust Is Live with CoPathPlus From Misys for Anatomic Pathology.BURGESS HILL Coordinates: Burgess Hill is a town and civil parish within the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex. , United Kingdom -- Misys Healthcare Systems, a market leader in healthcare information technology, today announced that George Eliot Hospital George Eliot Hospital is a single site hospital located on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, it is managed by the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. It provides a full range of emergency and elective medical services, including maternity services, to the local area. NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. in Warwickshire is in "live" production with the CoPathPlus(TM) from Misys anatomic pathology module. George Eliot Hospital, a Misys Laboratory(TM) system user since 1995, is an acute district general hospital serving the population of Nuneaton, Bedworth, rural North Warwickshire For the parliamentary constituency, see . North Warwickshire is a local government district and borough in Warwickshire, England. The main town in the district is Atherstone where the council is based. Other significant places include Coleshill, Polesworth and Kingsbury. , Coventry and parts of Leicestershire. Its pathology department provides a comprehensive general clinical laboratory for the hospital and healthcare providers both in its catchment area catchment area or drainage basin, area drained by a stream or other body of water. The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage and beyond, handling at total of 1.5 million test requests a year. CoPathPlus from Misys Designed to meet the unique workflow requirements of the anatomic pathology department, CoPathPlus from Misys provides comprehensive patient and specimen information viewable in a wide variety of data and graphical formats. The system incorporates images and diagrams, and comprises an integrated report writer, a library of more than 200 report options such as cytology cytology (sītŏl`əjē), in biology, the study of the structure of all normal and abnormal components of cells and the changes, movements, and transformations of such components. screening statistical requirements, Quality Assurance and fast report turnaround functions. Other features include histology protocols, SNOMED SNOMED Standard Nomenclature of Medical Diseases and Operations. SNOMED Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine & Veterinary Health informatics A computerized electronic vocabulary system for medical databases, which may become the standard vocabulary coding and HL7 compliance which offers the scalability to integrate with Misys CPRTM as well as any other computer- based patient record system. Statistics, tracking & ease of use Having reviewed the options, George Eliot selected CoPathPlus from Misys and is delighted with the choice. Says Paul Rushton, Laboratory Computer System Manager at George Eliot: "The solution's Windows-based interface makes it much easier to use. It took us less than four hours to train the clinical users." CoPathPlus from Misys supports the KC61 cytology statistics needed for the Department of Health and enables the Trust to pull out any other kind of statistics required. It records everything including Failsafe/Recall tracking for patients, test results or any other data the department may wish to flag, making it both highly secure and providing a powerful monitoring tool enabling a complete audit of the system. A-Z support The implementation of CoPathPlus began last autumn and was completed on schedule. Misys Healthcare Systems provided pro-active support from the beginning of the project in everything from planning, project management and implementation to training, system building, testing and trouble-shooting. As part of the standard package, Misys also provided the Trust consultancy services aimed at helping to save time and money by reviewing operational efficiencies and setting up systems to optimise workflow. Explains Rushton: "Another reason we chose Misys was its track record for superior support. After almost a decade of working together, Misys has encouraged us to set high expectations and expect only the best. Put simply - they perform." Upgrades as standard As part of the CoPathPlus implementation, Misys is also building four separate interfaces: to the patient demographic data repository See repository. (ADT (Asynchronous Data Transfer) A transmission technique used in ISDN PBXs that dynamically allocates bandwidth. See also abstract data type. ADT - abstract data type ), in-house results reporting system, interfaces to GP data feeds and cytology failsafe recalls to PCTs, as well as data migration from the legacy anatomic pathology system. Rushton continues: "Misys is excellent at this kind of technical work and it's a pleasure to work with them. Moreover, they are committed to insuring their products meet all UK requirements and provide regular product and regulatory (e.g. KC61) upgrades as a routine part of their maintenance contract, at no additional charge." Says Duane Lawrence, general manager of Misys Healthcare Systems in West Sussex, U.K.: "More and more laboratory facilities in the U.K. are upgrading to CoPathPlus from Misys, a state-of-the-art pathology information solution that is gathering a critical mass of adoption across the country. We are extremely pleased that George Eliot - a prestigious Trust that is frequently at the leading edge of technology and is currently seeking foundation status - continues to show such strong confidence in both our clinical products and our support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services ." Note To Editors: About George Eliot Hospital George Eliot Hospital, (GEH GEH George Eastman House GEH Google Earth Hacks (website) GEH Generalized Effective Hamiltonian ) opened in 1948, provides acute services to Nuneaton and Bedworth Nuneaton and Bedworth (nənē`tən), district (1991 pop. 115,300), Warwickshire, central England. The district primarily comprises the city of Nuneaton and the town of Bedworth. The district's growth was based on coal mining. , North Warwickshire, southwest Leicestershire and northern Coventry treating over 23,000 inpatients and daycases, 122,000 outpatients and 58,000 A&E attendances. This activity is supported by 1830 staff, 440 beds and an annual budget of more than GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 80 million. A new A&E department opened in 2000 and other recent facilities include a day procedures unit, renal dialysis unit and staff nursery. GEH works closely with other healthcare providers in clinical networks, including cancer, pathology and orthopaedic services. GEH also run shared services shared services, n.pl the administrative, clinical, or other service functions that are common to two or more hospitals or their health care facilities and used jointly or cooperatively by them. - such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy - with local NHS Primary Care Trusts. For more information visit www.geh.nhs NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service .uk About Misys Healthcare Systems Misys Healthcare Systems, one of the top five healthcare IT companies in North America, develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services of exceptional quality that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. Its Misys Optimum solutions, a family of best-in-class products and Web-based technologies, enable patient information sharing across all medical care settings, thus connecting community-based physicians to the acute care enterprise and enabling increased efficiencies, better decision making and improved hospital-physician relations. With 25 years of experience in the industry, Misys currently serves more than 92,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations, 1,250 hospitals, 600 home care providers and hundreds of commercial laboratories, clinics, managed services and other related organisations. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com. About Misys plc Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company, serves customers in the international banking and securities, international healthcare, and UK retail financial services sectors. The group partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries. For the year ended May 31, 2003, Misys reported revenues in excess of $1.5 billion. Misys employs more than 6,000 people internationally. For more information visit www.misys.com. Misys Laboratory and Misys CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac are trademarks of Misys Hospital Systems, Inc. d/b/a Misys Healthcare Systems. CoPathPlus(TM) is distributed by Misys under license |
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