ReStart in the South East
ReStart has been supporting health and care providers in the South East for over 10 years, with current projects supporting Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Surrey Heartlands and Sussex ICSs.
Maintaining Data Flow at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Like many NHS Trusts, Portsmouth had a solid IT development team but were often constrained by the demands of maintaining real-time patient data flow between departments as well as external care sources. The Trust had a legacy integration platform which became unsupported so they opted to migrate to InterSystems Health Connect. With vast experience in similar projects, ReStart were selected for Portsmouth’s migration project over a 2 year period which included delivering over 30 interfaces as well as bespoke development.
Chris Pursey, IT Principal Development Consultant at the NHS Trust, said: “Some parts of the migration proved to be tricky, and it was great to be able to give ReStart a call and talk about the technical side of things. We’ve learnt a lot from them, and the more we learn the better we are as a development team. Overall, it’s been a great partnership.”
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
In 2018 Sussex Community required a Trust Integration Engine (TIE) to support access to real-time data across the 6 sites of the Trust. ReStart provided the initial support to deliver the Qvera TIE and over the past 6 years has worked closely with the integration team on a number of projects.
One of the key projects was a bed management interface for TPP’s SystmOne – this integration enabled data to be extracted on the precise ward location for each patient as well as the tracking admissions and discharges. The Business Intelligence team at the Trust accessed this data to provide a feed to the bed management screens on the wards. This quickly delivered improvements and efficiencies across the Trust.
The TIE also handles data from a vast range of monitoring devices across the Trust including ECG, blood pressure monitoring, bladder scanner. Readings are transmitted in real-time to the TIE and delivered into SystmOne for clinical staff to review at the time of care. This saves time for care staff having all the data in once place and gives patients peace of mind knowing clinicians in the Community Trust as well as their own GP’s have a full view of their update to date health information.
ReStart is the UK’s leading provider of data integration and interoperability to the NHS. Established 20 years ago, ReStart works with 50% of ICSs and provides 24/7 integration support to over 20% of NHS Trusts. With a highly skilled workforce of over 30 full-time technical staff located across the UK, ReStart staff are often embedded within NHS technical teams to support complex interoperability and data migration challenges. They are experienced with integration engines such as Rhapsody, Ensemble and Health Connect as well as developing data interfaces for suppliers’ systems including Cerner, Lorenzo, IPM, Epic, CaMIS, TPP and System C.
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