NHS trusts adopt iSOFT's path lab reporting tool to improve
efficiency
21 Feb 2011
Two UK hospital trusts have installed the CorVu laboratory
management reporting tool from iSOFT’s to improve pathology department
performance.
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust will use CorVu to
analyse department statistics to improve the turnaround times of
pathology tests at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and nearby
West Cumberland Hospital at Whitehaven. The order follows the
Trust's recent upgrade of iSOFT’s laboratory information system,
i.Laboratory.
At St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London, CorVu is replacing
a management reporting system that is unable to keep pace with the
demands on modern pathology services. Its 180 pathology staff deal
with 697,000 orders and 7.5 million pathology tests a year.
“Being able to view workloads in real time will enable us to
closely match resources and respond at once to pressures and
changing priorities,” said the trust’s project manager, Andrew
Stewart. “With CorVu, we can view departmental data in greater depth
to expose problem areas and so increase throughput and improve
quality.”
The move to CorVu is part of an overhaul of laboratory systems at
the 1,000-bed St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, and
coincides with a new five-year deal. The contract extension includes
an upgrade to iSOFT’s latest i.Laboratory solution and new hardware.
St George’s Healthcare has used i.Laboratory since 1994 and
partnered on several key developments, including a blood transfusion
module, and will again collaborate to further develop the CorVu
product.
“The integration of the CorVu application is part of our customer
promise to deliver innovative solutions that improve performance and
deliver genuine business benefits,” said Adrian Stevens, Managing
Director of iSOFT’s UK and Ireland business. “As the UK’s largest
provider of laboratory information systems, we have a responsibility
to constantly innovate to help our customers meet ever-demanding
efficiency, quality and cost targets.”
The introduction of CorVu in the UK follows an agreement with its
US-based developers, Rocket Software.