Ascribe has announced the order of its Emergency Department (ED) solution, Ascribe Symphony, by West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (WSFT). Ascribe's ED solution is an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system designed to improve patient flow through the department, providing users with simple, yet comprehensive access to clinical information at 'the point of care'.
The Trust chose Ascribe’s ED solution because it will provide them with one central information system within the Emergency Department, reducing time in retrieving information and improving throughput of patients. The user friendly graphical interface will improve access to patient information and retrieval of real-time clinical data. WSFT also liked the ability that Ascribe Symphony gives to potentially save masses of storage space, should the Department decide to go paperless.
Alain Sauvage, Emergency Medicine Consultant at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, commented: "Ascribe is a welcome relief to take the Emergency Department's IT into the twenty first century!"
Stephen Critchlow, CEO at Ascribe, commented: "We are looking forward to helping West Suffolk NHS Foundation improve patient care with the systems they are installing."
About Ascribe's Emergency Department solution
Ascribe Symphony is the market leading Emergency and Unscheduled Care IT system providing clinical benefits to patients, clinicians and trust managers.
Over 30 million patients are recorded on Ascribe Symphony in the UK with the system supporting over 7 million attendances per annum.
Ascribe provides the clinician with a simple to use graphical interface that delivers real time clinical management data for patients in acute and minor injuries settings.
Ascribe Symphony supports the everyday practices of the Emergency departments and matches the workflows to data collection processes. The solution fully supports the delivery of all the complex information needs for emergency departments including the delivery of information to support the Department of Health Quality Indicators for A&E.
About West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
West Suffolk Hospital is a vibrant, friendly and accessible hospital set in a 19-hectare parkland site on the edge of Bury St Edmunds. It has around 430 beds open at any one time and serves a population of around 275,000 within an area of approximately 600 square miles.
About Ascribe
Over 75% of NHS Acute Trusts use Ascribe systems and our commitment to improving healthcare IT has made us a strategic partner for a growing number of Trusts.
Ascribe's clinical systems are robust and scalable, from departmental systems through to strategic enterprise-scale solutions. The company is a Microsoft Gold Partner. In addition to developing its own solutions, Ascribe provides professional consultancy personnel for Ascribe, Microsoft and other healthcare IT systems. From Electronic Prescribing through to Paperless Clinical Management and even Pharmacy robotic interfaces, Ascribe's breadth of integrated systems has been proven to help Trusts improve their efficiency and cut costs.
Ascribe recently won the 2012 Microsoft Public Sector Health Partner of the Year Award.
"The system paid for itself in two months", Senior NHS Clinical Manager.
Ascribe employs 300 personnel through its operating companies in the UK, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand.