The Department of Health has asked me to correct the impression that the NHS CIO Christine Connelly expects a full implementation of the NPfIT Lorenzo system in an acute trust by November this year.
It says that Connelly expects Lorenzo to be fully implemented in a trust, not necessarily acute, by November and well on track for a March 2010 implementation in an acute trust.
In an article earlier this week I quoted from Financial Times which had reported on its interview with Connelly.
Now the Department says in an email to me that it wants to "correct a misunderstanding about what 'significant progress' means in terms of implementing Lorenzo". It added:
"Understandably, given you were not at Harrogate [HC2009] yesterday, you used the FT report to inform the blog. However, it was inaccurate in relation to expectations on Lorenzo as it suggested we are expecting a full implementation in an acute trust by November this year.
"Christine Connelly made clear in her speech and media briefing yesterday that we expect Lorenzo to be fully implemented in a trust, not necessarily acute, by November and well on track for a March 2010 implementation in an acute trust."
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I asked her at Harrogate about the strategic plan for Primary Care, particularly General Practice in the light of Lorenzo.
I don't know whether she - or Martin Bellamy the following day - fully understood the question (or had thought about general practice) but she said the strategy remained the same - which I assume to mean the introduction of the Detailed Care Record as a SSEPR i.e. Lorenzo Regional Care and all GP practices to migrate to this.
Martin Bellamy was more direct (or had been warned). He said kind words about GPSoC - and then said that he would expect a DCR if Lorenzo was installed..
I see from EHI that TPP says it is now the strategic solution for CSC - who say it will be integrated with Lorenzo: is there no-one with even elementary health informatics training in either organisation?
How do you fuse clinical information held in CTV3 (TPP variant) with SNOMED-CT?
Posted by Mary Hawking | May 10, 2009 3:34 PM
Posted on May 10, 2009 15:34
My understanding is that Lorenzo will not have been fully developed by November this year. In fact will even full PAS functionality have been fully developed and proven, never mind more sophisticated clinical support functionality? - perhaps someone knows. So what then does 'fully implemented' mean? And, if not by an acute trust, by what other kind of trust? I thought TPP was now the strategic solution for PCTs
Posted by Alan Shackman | May 11, 2009 11:28 PM
Posted on May 11, 2009 23:28