GE Healthcare IT has announced an extension to the Centricity laboratory contract at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust to support the pan-Warwickshire pathology service. The formation of this service has brought together the laboratory services of the South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.
The close cooperation of the three laboratories will deliver major savings by rationalising the services and providing the end user with a single point of access to all pathology results across the area. Fundamental to the process will be the move of the existing Centricity laboratory system to high-resilient servers on Coventry's Walsgrave site and its extension to replace the other two sites’ legacy systems. All information will reside in a single database but the inherent multisite configuration options will still support detailed activity analysis by the trust.
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