East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chooses Harris Corporations Clinical Integration Platform

East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chooses Harris Corporations Clinical Integration Platform Highlights:

Solution streamlines access to core clinical applications and gives clinicians a single contextual view of patient information.

Will save time accessing patient data stored in different systems.

Initial deployment will start with 500 users.

MELBOURNE, FL/ WINNERSH, UK, May 7, 2013 East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is deploying Harris Corporations Clinical Integration Platform to help provide a paperless and mobile clinical environment as part of a wider modernization program. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and busiest hospital trusts in the United Kingdom, with more than 7,000 staff across five sites. The Trust signed a pilot agreement for 500 clinical portal licenses to enable the organization to bring together patient information from different clinical systems that currently work in isolation. This will provide healthcare professionals with a real-time, intuitive and comprehensive view of critical patient data necessary to provide safe, high-quality and timely patient care. The initial phase of the implementation will integrate data from six major clinical systems including the Trusts patient administration, pathology, document management, vital signs monitoring, PACS and theatres systems. Leveraging Imprivatas OneSign Single-Sign On, the clinical portal will automatically log in, draw and present relevant patient information from each of the systems and provide it on a single screen. In addition, the system also will enable doctors to order standard diagnostic tests quickly and confirm receipt of results. We have chosen to pilot the use of a clinical portal solution across three clinical specialities with the intention that it provides the technology to enable staff to operate more efficient and paperless clinics in line with the trusts IT strategy and the governments challenge to create a paperless NHS by 2018, said Bob Reeves, head of IT at the Trust. By using such technology and simplifying our processes, East Kent estimates that the solution can reduce the amount of time that busy A&E doctors spend searching for patient information by up to 20 minutes for more complex patients. East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is working with Harris Healthcare to overcome the same challenge that so many organizations face accessing existing information spread across numerous systems without the need to go through the time-consuming and costly process of replacing everything, said Mike Smith, director of technology (EMEA), Harris Healthcare. The clinical portal has great clinical buy-in as it works with the systems that front-line staff are already familiar with but also provides a much clearer and quicker way to access patient data to ensure healthcare professionals have the right information at the right time. About East Kent Hospitals University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals serving a local population of around 759,000 people. The trust also provides many health services from other NHS facilities across East Kent including child and adolescent mental health services and renal services in Medway and Maidstone. Additional information is available at www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/about-us. About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 125 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $5.5 billion of annual revenue and about 15,000 employees including 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at harris.com. # # # Contact Information: Sean McCabe

The Pinkston Group for Harris Healthcare

harris@pinkstongroup.com

703-297-4898 Jim Burke

Harris Corporation

jim.burke@harris.com

321-727-9131

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