Nieuws artikel -- December 22, 2008

CSC Wins IT Industry Award with its Emergency Ambulance Solution for the NHS

CSC has won the British Computing Society Award for mobile technology with its mobile emergency care solution that it is delivering to the NHS Ambulance Services.

The CSC emergency electronic patient-care reporting system (Siren ePCR) is a mobile solution designed to be used by the NHS Emergency Services in the North, Midlands and East of England as part of CSC's contract to deliver an integrated healthcare solution for the NHS under the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Siren ePCR is the software product that CSC is delivering with the software developers Medusa.

The Siren solution is installed on touch screen tablet PCs in ambulances, and records patient information such as blood pressure and ECG statistics using wireless technology. This gives paramedics the ability to access a summary of the patient's notes to help them determine the best course of treatment, often negating the need to take the patient to A&E.

Already the solution is being deployed in three of the six Ambulance Service Trusts under the CSC NHS contract. It is hoped that Siren will be deployed to all 2,500 ambulances and up to 20,000 staff in the North, Midlands and East regions - 60 per cent of England - over the coming 2-3 years.

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