Following an invite AES Medical will be presenting the Lymphoma module for PathoSys® at the Autum Meeting of the British Lymphoma Pathology Group.
The meeting on Thursday the 6th of November is being held at St Thomas Hospital, London. St Thomas Hospital was founded in the 12th century and today is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
The PathoSys® user group was kindly invited to the the £18 million ‘super-lab’ at the Royal Oldham Hospital. The lab which is one of the biggest in the country runs centralised pathology services across Oldham, Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton, Bury and North Manchester.
The user group meetings are increasingly well attended and offer users a chance to share best practice and see how other Trusts have implemented and used the PathoSys system. Also as part of the day a tour was given around the impressive new laboratory.
AES Medical would like to thank the staff at the Royal Oldham Hospital laboratory for hosting the event and our guest speaker from PathLinks.
The PathoSys® User Group website has been upgraded.
The user group website now has a refreshed look and more information has been added to the forum.In particular information regarding our proposed audit service has been added.
AES Medical has improved the downloads section which now contains categories of downloads to ease navigation and increased content.
Newsletter
All users registered with the PathoSys® User Group can now subscribe to our optional email newsletter which provides information on:
Developments to PathoSys®
Tips for using PathoSys®
This newsletter is emailed out automatically once users have subscribed and users have the option to unsubscribe at any time from this service.
The User Group
The PathoSys® user group is dedicated to informing and educating PathoSys® users about AES Medical products, services and any recent developments.
The user group aims to enable its members to:
Share experiences in using the PathoSys® product and associated services with other user group members and learn from their experiences.
Influence direction and improve PathoSys® through communication and cooperation with AES Medical.
Provide a forum for sharing pathology knowledge, best practice and news from all sources with other AES Medical user group members.
The AES Medical team has met with the Somerset Cancer Register system team to discuss the linking of PathoSys® and the Somerset Cancer Register System.
The result of this meeting is an agreement in principle that AES Medical will develop (together with the SCR team) an interface that will allow the electronic transfer of data between the two systems.
This will initially be made available to both Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
The SCR System
The Somerset Cancer Register is a single database application developed by Somerset Health Informatics (SHI).
The system has the capability to collect clinical cancer data for each cancer site along the patient pathway.
Resulting in the collection of clinical cancer data across the network being improved and standardised whilst providing a single source for interrogation of information about a patients cancer care.
The pathology reporting system PathoSys® has been in use since November 2006 at the Pathology laboratory at the new Derby City General Hospital. This £334 million hospital has 1159 beds and following the final phase of development is due to be completed in spring 2009.
Together with the Derby Medical School, run in partnership with the University of Nottingham, the new hospital will become one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK.
PathoSys® has been running live at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust linked to the iSoft CILMS system.
This is due to be replaced during 2008 with the iSoft iLab laboratory system.
PathoSys® will continue in use after the upgrade linked to iLab. As part of the upgrade process, the interface between the PathoSys® and iLab systems has been installed.
Interface installation
The iLab interface was installed on-site by an iSoft engineer. This was done in co-operation with AES Medical allowing the testing of the interface functionality during the installation.
Building on experience gained by both parties from previous installations this was achieved in a single morning.
Formed in 1990 St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust employs over 4,000 staff who provide a full range of acute service and emergency services to the local Communities of St Helens, Knowsley, and parts of Halton and Liverpool.
New Hospitals
The Trust is spread across two main sites. Whiston Hospital provides all acute services and has 724 beds, St Helens Hospital provides elective surgical services’, care of the elderly, with 232 beds plus an out-patient department.
These are both currently undergoing a £338million development over the next three years to provide state of the art, modern healthcare facilities for the local communities.
PathoSys® at St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
PathoSys® will be interfaced to the iSoft iLab TP (formerly TelePath) system thereby extending the functionality of the iLab TP system to include the Royal College of Pathologists Dataset Reporting.
The PathoSys® reports generated at St Helens will be available across the North Mersey Pathology cluster via the GP Requesting and reporting system.
AES Medical has upgraded the East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust PathoSys® server to Windows 2003 R2.
This now brings all PathoSys® servers onto the same platform and provides the Users at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust with a better user experience with local printing, hi-colour graphics and local file access.
AES Medical would like to thank the East Kent IT team for their assistance and support.
The PathoSys® Colorectal module will soon include support for polyp biopsies, polypectomies and local excisions.
This comes from a combination of the Royal College of Pathologists Local Exicision Dataset and the NHS National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Pathology Reporting pro forma.
Why?
The aim of this development is to give our users greater flexibility in the way they use PathoSys and reduce the administration involved in participating in the NHS National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
In addition users will gain the usual PathoSys® Enhanced Database Reporting benefits of standardised reporting and the ability to undertake rapid local audit.
Find out more …
For more information about this development contact us via the website.
The West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit coordinated the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries (UKACR) 2007 Annual Conference entitled:”Working Together To Meet Cancer Intelligence Needs”
About the Conference
Held on the 30th and 31st of October the conference venue was the International Convention Centre (ICC), Birmingham. This years conference was well attended with around 200 delegates and invited speakers including Professor Mike Richards, Mrs Julietta Patnick, Chris Carrigan and Dr Rashmi Shukla.
The role of AES Medical
AES Medical has installations of the PathoSys® cancer reporting and information management system in the UK covering approximately 4.2 million inhabitants. PathoSys® provides fast and accurate export of comprehensive pathology cancer data.
In practice this results in a reduced workload for the laboratory exporting the data and increased reliability, quality and accuracy for the recipient (Cancer Registry).
AES Medical works together wherever possible with the cancer registries of our customers and potential customers to facilitate these benefits, both to our customers and the registries.
For further information on PathoSys® and its benefits to laboratories/cancer registries please contact us either by telephone +44 (0) 1332 383 521 or via the website contact form.
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