2007

26 September 2007

iSOFT wins £1m deal in Wales for lab technology refresh

iSOFT has won contracts totalling £1m for a technology refresh of laboratory information systems at nine NHS trusts in Wales.

The deal includes iSOFT’s latest i.Laboratory TP application providing an InterSystems Caché environment for better performance and greater resilience. It also ensures that all NHS trusts in Wales are running the same version of i.Laboratory TP as two other trusts upgraded earlier this year.

iSOFT will migrate the nine trusts to new IBM servers and provide ongoing support.

The overall deal was negotiated by Informing Healthcare, providing economies of scale and substantial discounts, but the contracts are with each individual trust. Informing Healthcare is the Welsh Assembly Government programme set up to improve patient care through better use of information and IT.

The technology refresh upgrades existing pathology systems, originally installed in the early 1990s and ensures that trusts have the updated hardware and system software to meet the demands of a modern pathology service.

The nine NHS trusts are: Bro Morgannwg, Conwy and Denbighshire, Cardiff and Vale, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, North Glamorgan, North West Wales, Pembrokeshire and Derwen, and Pontypridd & Rhondda. The two trusts that upgraded earlier this year are North East Wales and Gwent Healthcare.

iSOFT has 150 customers in the UK for laboratory information systems, giving it a 65% share of the UK market.

For further information, please contact:

Brian Hemming

iSOFT Group Limited

Tel: +44 (0) 129 527 4240

Fax: +44 (0) 870 050 8911

Mobile: +44 (0) 7748 920 528

Email: brian.hemming@isofthealth.com