The Ministry of Defence has made an investment in ICT to help front line troops' medical treatment by moving to the electronic patient record (EPR) software Medway from supplier, System C.

The EPR is going to be used to support UK and NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan at its Medical Treatment Facility at Camp Bastion (the nation's main military base in Helmand Province).

Medway will also become part of the MoD’s Afghanistan pre-deployment training programme for operational medics and nurses for both the UK armed forces and our NATO partners.

The EPR deployment is being managed by systems integrator Logica, prime contractor for the project, with both it and the software house working to train up military clinicians, primarily at the Army Medical Services Training Centre near York.

Logica's going to be working to make sure Medway gets successfully integrated with existing MoD software applications so as to provide a “first class clinical platform for the management and treatment of patients”.

Bed management, clinical support tools, emergency department, intensive care, order communications, reporting, and patient administration will all be covered in the first phase of the project.

Logica already works closely in partnership with the MoD to deliver the MoD’s main Primary Healthcare application.

Source: http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/defence-fire-police/uk-armed-forces-use-system-c-epr