NHS trust to use iPads for real-time access to patient records.
The trust hopes to use other mobile functions such as online mapping, so district nurses can plan the best route for their rounds.
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By June, SWFT hopes to have installed a document management system from supplier Kainos, which will help the trust to scan its paper-based records into a database of electronic records. Kainos was chosen partly because it could demonstrate its mobile access to its software through an iPad, said Robinson.
This was an interesting story because it represents a health trust doing something independently of the multiply-failed monolithic NHS IT projects.
This is a doubly interesting story because it involved Kainos, one of Northern Ireland’s premiere software houses.