DIGITAL HEALTH AND CARE WALES
Microsoft Teams to the whole of NHS Wales in around six weeks and to transition completely to Office 365 in a year . We are working closely together now on our Microsoft 365 Centre of Excellence . We wanted to draw on Red Cortex ’ s expertise and their understanding of the Microsoft platform , and blend that with our own in-house capability , which has helped us to scale up and to build knowledge and skills more quickly .”
At the multi-national vendor level , DHCW has worked closely with key suppliers like Cegedim for many years and is now developing those relationships into strategic partnerships . Cegedim provided Vision 3 , a desktop product for primary care , to just over half of GP practices in Wales . “ We work with Cegedim as a key supplier to understand its strategic roadmap , and for its team to understand ours , so that we can look for ways to align our goals . In the end , we all want the same thing , which is better quality digital services for GPs , leading to better outcomes for patients .”
Digital Health and Care Wales is delivering an all-Wales digital medicines transformation programme , which includes electronic prescriptions in primary care . It is also looking to shift key services from on-premises data centres to cloud . “ We shared our ambitions for prescribing and shift to cloud , and Cegedim shared its ambitions for the UK market , such as introducing the cloud-based Vision Anywhere product and increasing its market share in England . It is still a supplier , and DHCW is still a customer , but it isn ’ t hard to find areas of mutual benefit if both parties are committed to working together .”
Evans has a clear vision of what he is aiming for in the ideal strategic partnership . At the top of the list is what the system can offer as an innovation partner , and the reciprocal benefits for Wales in terms of skills , insight and economic development .
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