Patients with irritable bowel syndrome have generally already been through a lot by the time they receive a formal diagnosis, and they face numerous daily challenges and obstacles associated with their symptoms that impair their quality of life.

Replay this webinar with Professor Natasha Phillips, former NHS England CNIO, and Neil Perry, a former acute trust CIO, in live conversation with Highland Marketing's Matthew D'Arcy and the ABHI's Jonathan Evans.

The system was first introduced into the NHS in 2009, to allow trusts to share images with each other. Greater reliance on the independent sector to help to tackle diagnostic backlogs, and an increase in patients requesting access to their own images, have contributed to a growth in use of the portal, as more images move beyond organisational boundaries.

Stephenson joins the company from System C Healthcare, where she was chief revenue officer, having previously led Clevermed, the provider of the BadgerNet neonatal and maternity system.

The assay from global health technology provider Mindray allows clinical teams to measure cardiac troponin I proteins that are released into the blood during heart attacks, and when the heart is damaged.

Phase three was completed in late October, when Northern Health and Social Care Trust went live with the laboratory information management system in blood sciences and microbiology, and the national cervical cytology screening service hosted by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust adopted the LIMS.

Clinical professionals and end users were deeply involved in this complex undertaking, from the moment a decision was made to deliver a new emergency department electronic patient record.