Pennine Care delays Lorenzo R1.9

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27 Jan 2010

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has delayed its implementation of Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 until the summer, E-Health Insider has learned.

Last May, NHS Bury’s informatics plan revealed that both the primary care trust and the mental health services trust would be working to implement Lorenzo R 1.9 in 2009, under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.

While NHS Bury went live with R1.9 in November, Pennine Care has rescheduled its deployment. If it had gone ahead, it would have become the first mental health trust to implement the release.

Barbara Hoyle, ICT director at the trust, told E-Health Insider: “As an early planning date, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has been working to deploy Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 in November 2009.

"This date was later revised and we remain on track to deploy Lorenzo Care Management by June 2010." The trust declined to respond to questions about the reasons for the delay.

Hoyle added: “The trust will be replacing its existing PAS [patient administration system] - CSCA hosted iPM - with Lorenzo 1.9 across all its inpatient, outpatient and community services.

"Go-live will be phased over a one week period to ensure efficient support on the ground for 800 system users. Staff training schedules are currently being developed and it is anticipated that the training will commence in April.”

Last year, director general of informatics Christine Connelly said that local service providers needed to make “significant progress” with getting strategic electronic patient record systems into the acute sector.

Her targets included CSC, the LSP for the North, Midlands and East, being on track to implement iSoft’s Lorenzo R1.9 into any care setting by November 2009 and “on track” to deploy it into an acute care setting in March 2010.

Board papers published in November 2009 by Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority say that “Morecambe Bay will be the first acute trust to take this system, which is planned to go-live on the 29 March 2010.”

Links: Yorkshire and the Humber IT Programme-Update

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Sarah Bruce

Three more early adopters for Lorenzo (19 May 2009) (9)

Readers Comments

Pennine Care DelayED LRC 1.9

27 Jan 10 08:55

This is something that happened 2 months ago, I'm curious if there is a reason for it being reported now.

Is it just because the board papers have been released now (likely).

I would be curious to see a summary of which Trusts had planned to golive in Novemeber 2009 and what their revised dates are as I thought there were 4 Trusts due and only 1 has gone live.

Enough!

27 Jan 10 09:48

Ok, so we gave Lorenzo for Mental Health every opportunity. This is the last straw. While Lorenzo struggles to reach minimum specification levels and timescales continue to stretch, tried and tested products like Paris and Rio continue to evolve and give Trusts what they want.

Time for those Trusts who are waiting for Lorenzo to bite the bullet, face up to reality and get out there and perform a clear functional review of those products which are out there, are tried and tested and are working satisfactorily. Pick one, implement it and move on.

Lorenzo Developer Guide: Appendix A

27 Jan 10 10:19

Hospital: please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital

Inpatient: please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inpatient_care

Delivery by 2004: please see http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/781/accenture_signs_with_isoft_for_lorenzo

Six years late and Counting.

27 Jan 10 12:10

Lorenzo is now six years late and counting. While it is difficult to determine from available information, it appears that Lorenzo is no where near to providing the required functionality or that it has been demonstrated that whatever has been provided will work at scale. When is enough enough?

Other deployments

27 Jan 10 16:52

Any news on progress at Bradford?

when will CFH leaders be held accountable

27 Jan 10 19:24

Just when will the whole sorry NPfIT saga result in its leaders being held accountable? If they were a Trust Chief Executive they would have been sent packing by now. Start at the top and work down to SHA level.

RE: Other deployments

sarah@e-health-media.com

28 Jan 10 14:45

Bradford is keeping its implementation quite low key. The last we heard at the beginning of January 2010 (from Mike O'Brien) was that it is live with Release 1 in general surgery and urology and also has clinical documentation functionality.

Sarah Bruce, EHI reporter.

5 Boroughs

chrispreynolds@hotmail.com

29 Jan 10 09:20

What has happened at 5BP? I seem to remember a report that they had gone live on LRC - which would make them the first mental health trust on LRC. Perhaps it was version 1 rather than 1.9? Can anyone clarify?