IMS MAXIMS, one of the UK and Ireland's leading suppliers of clinical software solutions, has rolled out the latest version of their Irish patient administration system (PAS) across Ireland.
More than 50 healthcare organisations, including 12 acute hospitals, have made significant upgrades in order to meet national requirements and support advances announced by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to improve patient care.
The roll-out follows the introduction of the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS), which aims to make Ireland's radiological services filmless and enable secure and rapid movement of patient image data throughout the health service.
The IMS MAXIMS software has been upgraded to support the interface to the national system, which is being deployed in all of the acute hospitals across the country.
Shane Tickell, chief executive of IMS MAXIMS, said: "One of the key objectives at IMS MAXIMS has been to support the HSE's agenda to join up healthcare systems to improve the patient journey.
"MAXIMS Irish PAS holds more than 1.9 million records across the country, so it is imperative that we work with healthcare organisations to ensure that they are getting the very latest and fit for purpose functionality."
In addition, several other advances have been made to IMS MAXIMS functionality to support recent HSE and hospital business requirements.
Outpatient functionality has been enhanced so that outpatient data quality and reporting for the Department of Health’s Special Delivery Unit (DoH SDU) is streamlined in order to allow hospitals to quickly and easily make statistical returns.
Meanwhile, IMS MAXIMS has upgraded the A&E facilities of the PAS to support the recording of performance indicators in A&E departments so that daily returns on activity levels can be directly made to the SDU.
Interfacing has also been extended to further integrate the PAS with key clinical systems, including the integration of oncology and endoscopy services in order to streamline patient information and improve care delivery.
Other developments include additional functionality to ensure that the recording and processing of the European Health Insurance Card information can be obtained in line with HSE requirements as well as the deployment of extending text-messaging technology for outpatient appointments.
Tickell added: "The last twelve months have seen a huge effort by the IMS MAXIMS team to ensure that our Irish PAS clients have the latest in cutting edge technology. The clients themselves have also worked extremely hard to keep pace with the deployments throughout the year.
"With the advances to the software, each of the organisations should feel that it is meeting HSE and SDU requirements on top of driving efficiency and improving patient care."
About IMS MAXIMS
IMS MAXIMS is the company behind the widely-used MAXIMS clinical PAS. It is a specialist in developing clinical and administrative software solutions and currently supports more than 150 organisations, 1.9 million patient records in Ireland and 8 million patient records in the UK, as well as 10,000 users of IMS MAXIMS products.
To find out more about IMS MAXIMS and its products visit www.imsmaxims.com.