17 December 2009
2009 Roundup
2009 has been an extremely busy year for all at TPP, as we're sure it has been for you too. For TPP, this year has seen some of the company's most significant moments as SystmOne gained status across the National Programme and TPP's team has continued to grow and develop.
Here, we re-cap some of the stories we've brought you this year.
January
TPP launches Instant Messaging within SystmOne.
Numed Capture camera and software integrates with SystmOne.
NHS Bradford & Airedale starts to pilot Summary Care Records with SystmOne.
February
TPP announces the development of Read-coded questionnaire functionality within SystmOne, which patients will be able to complete via SystmOnline.
First SystmOne GP practice in the North West reports that SystmOne is improving their working processes.
March
The first independent SystmOne National User Group conference is announced to take place later in the year.
April
Westcliffe Medical Practice tells us how their GPs with Special Interests are using SystmOne to run enhanced services for the wider district.
The first SystmOne GP practice in Calderdale PCT reveals that SystmOne saves them an average of one minute per consultation.
The entire county of West Yorkshire goes live with SystmOne Out of Hours at Primary Care Centres and Call Centres on a single Go Live date.
May
SystmOne, which had been an 'interim' local service provider (LSP) solution since 2004, becomes one of CSC's 'strategic' primary care solutions. As part of this change, it is announced that SystmOne would integrate with Lorenzo in due course and would be deployed across the North, Midlands and East of England.
"This is a long-term agreement, extending until the end of the National Programme for IT's current
IT contracts. We're delighted as it clarifies the strong position that TPP and SystmOne hold in the National Programme for IT, and should assure both existing and future users that SystmOne will be deployed, developed and supported for the life of the National Programme."
Neil Toner, TPP Director, in May 2009
The Bradshaw Clinic in Derby reveals that sending patients text messages from SystmOne reduced their appointment DNA rate by 50%.
The first ever independent SystmOne national user group conference takes place in Leicester. An executive committee of thirteen is elected.
June
The North and North East Lincolnshire mobile working project reports great progress as it reaches its half way stage in its aim to provide 800 health care professionals remote access to SystmOne via Toughbook laptops.
The Department of Health announces that the first early adopter for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service will be a SystmOne site. Release2 delivers increased functionality for pharmacists, GPs and patients including nomination of pharmacies, electronic prescription signing and electronic repeat dispensing.
Healthstone, a group of practices in Bournemouth & Poole PCT, pools the resources of four GP practices using SystmOne to achieve their Extended Hours Access Direct Enhanced Service.
SystmOne becomes an official part of the GP Systems of Choice framework, making it available to GP practices in the South and London with NHS Connecting for Health funding.
SystmOne achieves 'hosted to NHS CFH standards' accreditation and becomes the only GPSoC system to be both hosted to CFH standards and to be Summary Care Record compliant.
TPP announces the development of SystmOne products for Secondary Care, Community Hospital, Mental Health, Social Services and major improvements for Out of Hours.
July
The Department of Health announces that SystmOne Prison has been selected as the first national clinical IT system for prisons. A letter sent to all NHS chief executives from Richard Bradshaw, director of offender health and Mark Read from the National Offender Management Service, says, "The clinical IT system will enable safer and more effective care to be delivered to offenders through the effective management and exchange of clinical information across prison healthcare."
TPP announces that two of TPP's most senior trainers have moved to new roles as 'Training Development Leads'. In the new role, Richard Crossley and Becky Sanders go beyond managing TPP's trainers to engaging NHS trainers across the country.
August
SystmOne and the Bradford Chronic Kidney Disease Electronic Advisory Service (CKDEAS) is shortlisted for two prestigious awards. In the Health Service Journal Awards 09, the project is a contender for the 'Improving Care With Technology' category. In the BCS & Computing Industry Awards 2009, the project is nominated in the 'Community Project of the Year' category.
TPP announces that it is working with CareFusion (formerly Micro Medical and CardinalHealth) to integrate their spirometry devices and software into SystmOne, allowing automatic transfer of QOF data and patient spirometry results.
The first secondary care units to use SystmOne Community Hospital (Corby Community Hospital and Bridlington MacMillan Wolds Unit) go live.
September
Nine months after its launch, TPP reports that SystmOnline is in use in over 270 organisations, and that it is proving a particular hit with silver surfers!
TPP celebrates a double milestone of its eleventh birthday and the 1,000th GP practice to go live on SystmOne, Broadhurst Street Surgery in Leicester.
To mark the occasion, CSC donates £1,000 to the charity of the practice's choice, which was Rainbows Children's Hospice.
The Summary Care Record pilot is completed, paving the way for roll-out across the SystmOne user base.
October
East Riding of Yorkshire announces the benefits that SystmOne Community Hospital is bringing patients in Driffield, Beverly, Hornsea and Withernsea. Nick Borrill, Locality Matron for Beverley and Holderness, said: "The system is being used by all grades of staff from the health care assistants inputting the patient’s vital signs, to the ward sister looking at overall bed management. Simplicity of the system has been the key to user involvement. We are very proud to be one of the first teams to use this in the Community hospitals."
November
Bradford CKDEAS is one of two projects awarded a medal in the 'Community Project of the Year' category of the BCS & Computing Industry Awards 2009.
TPP attends the ASCC framework event, demoing SystmOne modules to NHS representatives from the Southern region.
December
TPP attends the second annual NHS CFH Healthcare Professionals and Practitioners Conference with Calderdale PCT.
End of 2009 - we're gaining on Google!
Looking at the SystmOne database in October of 2009, we uncovered some very interesting statistics.
SystmOne's users do over 30 million 'transactions' a day. That means, that on average, every second, they do over 347 'somethings' on SystmOne, whether it's searching for a patient, running a report, or booking an appointment.
The global internet search engine, Google, published figures in March this year revealing that 293 million Google searches are performed per day.
Putting those two stats together, you can see that SystmOne users in England are about a tenth as busy as users of the giant Google worldwide! So, if anyone ever says that clinicians in this country are not working hard, we now have the stats to prove otherwise!
Josh O'Neill, TPP Director and member of TPP's Technical Team says, "Google is a world-class product and we've got a lot of respect for it. To think that we're edging into the same league as it is pretty amazing."
As the number of SystmOne users and modules increases, TPP's Tech Team works tirelessly to increase the capacity of the SystmOne environment. We estimate that we'll reach 100 million SystmOne transactions a day in around three years… maybe just in time for the London Olympics! Let's hope we can celebrate that along with a boat-load of British golds!
