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PROFILE
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John Elliott
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Organisation: Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust.
Interviewee: John Elliott.
Job Title: Senior Technical Analyst.
The Subject: Salford Royal Hospital has used integration tools to create a single view of patients, equivalent to the ‘single view of the customer’ in business.
PERSONAL FILE
NAME: John Elliott.
BACKGROUND: John has spent over 30 years working in the NHS, starting in February 1973 – 13 years in finance, which then led him into over 17 years in computing. He has built up expertise in being able to extract data from various computer systems for subsequent analysis. System integration or real-time interfacing seems a natural progression. He gained an honours degree in software development at Salford University in 1999. John says the last four or five years have been the most enjoyable in his working life.
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Q: WHAT FIRST LED YOU TO INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY?
A: At the time, in 1999, we had a new director of informatics who came into the Trust with some strong ideas about introducing an electronic patient records (EPR) system. There was already interest among the clinical staff in a system where you have a complete record of a patient’s treatment history, who they’ve seen, all their pathology, radiology results, all the correspondence, their inpatients and outpatients visits, everything.
The director of informatics had worked with an EPR system before. We looked at a few others but chose Sunrise Clinical Manager from Eclypsis, now iSoft. The SeeBeyond e*Gate Integrator system – in those days called DataGate – was recommended to us as part of this EPR package, and we knew it was in place at other sites.
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