Jennifer Welsh, senior responsible owner of NIPIMS and chair of the Northern Ireland Pathology Network, said: ‘The decision to award a single LIMS contract is a big moment in the development of pathology services in Northern Ireland. This will enable us to better manage increasing demand, standardise reporting across the health service and ensure a better service for patients.’
It sees us beginning to implement a regional solution that will take us from seven separate systems to a single, Northern Ireland healthcare specific, digital solution. Karin Jackson, who leads the Core LIMS project in the NIPIMS (The Northern Ireland Pathology Information Management Systems) programme, said: ‘Today is excellent news for our health service, and pathology services in particular. ‘I believe that a world-class digital healthcare service is at the heart of our future needs, and the launch of LIMS is a shining example of transformation being delivered.’ ‘The past 18 months have been particularly challenging, with the pandemic placing unprecedented demands on our testing service and reinforcing the need for investment and transformation of our Health and Social Care system, to meet the needs of our citizens in coming years,’ Swann continued. In labs across the region, more than 40 million tests a year are being carried out by our scientists and laboratory staff, to support the healthcare needs of our population.’ Northern Ireland’s Health Minister Robin Swann said: ‘Pathology is a service that operates largely behind the scenes but which is critical to our health service and contributes to the vast majority of patient diagnoses from GPs and hospitals. In addition, CliniSys will also replace the legacy system used by the country’s genetics service with GLIMS Genomics which has been designed to meet the needs of genomics laboratories and successfully deployed across mainland Europe. CliniSys will replace the seven IT systems used by Northern Ireland’s hospital trusts’ pathology disciplines and the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service with the latest version of WinPath Enterprise. CliniSys has won a major contract to deploy a single laboratory information system across Northern Ireland as part of a modernisation programme to create a world-class pathology service for the country.
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