Three NHS Scotland Boards have gone dwell with the Evolution vLab Laboratory Info Administration System by Magentus, seamlessly connecting laboratory medication companies throughout a number of websites to ship streamlined workflows, better scientific security and higher affected person outcomes.
A brand new implementation at NHS Fife marks the third profitable LIMS go-live by NHS Scotland and Magentus, constructing upon latest profitable go-lives at NHS Shetland and NHS Orkney.
The Evolution vLab LIMS is now supporting workers working throughout disciplines together with histopathology, blood transfusion, microbiology, virology, immunology, haematology and biochemistry.
Going dwell with Evolution vLab at NHS Shetland, NHS Orkney and NHS Fife has set a strong basis for constructing the UK’s largest related laboratory medication community.
All three NHS Boards had been accelerated because the preliminary tasks for Magentus to ship as the popular provider for NHS Scotland’s formidable nationwide LIMS framework.
Below the framework, Evolution vLab may finally assist greater than 4,000 workers in performing over 100 million exams throughout Scotland per yr.
A typical and trendy LIMS is essential for NHS Scotland to understand the goals of its digital methods and a key enabler of the strategic intention for delivering scientific laboratory companies within the type of a Distributed Service Mannequin.
An efficient LIMS is essential to the perform of laboratory medication, because it helps handle and report outcomes of all major, secondary and tertiary laboratory requests — exams that play an element in 70-80% of all well being care selections affecting analysis of illness, remedy, and monitoring response to remedy.
Evolution vLab supplies the aptitude to create automation of workflows, integration of devices, and administration of samples and their related info. It additionally interfaces with key native and nationwide healthcare programs together with Affected person Administration Methods and Digital Affected person Information, supporting dependable continuity of data movement.
Considered one of 14 territorial NHS Boards in Scotland, NHS Fife operates Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, supported by a community of group and day hospitals in addition to GPs, dentists, opticians and pharmacists.
The Board — carefully linked with laboratories throughout NHS Scotland by means of the Diagnostic Networks — employs round 8,500 workers and supplies healthcare to a inhabitants of greater than 370,000. NHS Fife’s key laboratories are based mostly inside the Victoria Hospital, a central hub for offering laboratory medication companies for Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline and GPs all through Fife.
The positioning additionally supplies the laboratory medication service for the Regional Endoscopy Unit that features affected person referrals from NHS Lothian and NHS Forth Valley.
Robyn Gunn, NHS Fife head of laboratory companies, stated: “This has been a real partnership with Magentus, working collaboratively to enhance and advance our laboratory programs and guaranteeing they’re match for the long run.
“Not solely will this implementation be of nice profit regionally, but it surely additionally represents an enormous step for laboratory medication in Scotland, paving the best way for better effectivity, collaboration and connection throughout NHS Scotland boards.”
Mike Grey, NHS Lothian laboratory service supervisor and co-chair of the LIMS Implementation Programme, added: “These first websites going dwell present an essential basis for the nationwide framework we’re partnering with Magentus to ship.
“These would be the constructing blocks for considerably improved service supply and the early steps in reaping the complete advantages of working a single LIMS throughout Scotland.
“We couldn’t be happier with the partnership — Magentus flooded NHS Fife with 24-hour assist to get this undertaking off the bottom and it has been an incredible ‘one group’ effort that wouldn’t have occurred with out that joint dedication by forward-thinking groups on either side working as one.”