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Eynsham, Nr. Oxford, United Kingdom, 07/06/2010 - Hytec has welcomed the recent NHS IT reforms, believing that reviewing the national programmes and IT contracts over £1m in value will encourage innovation, efficiency and systems that better meet local needs and support patient-centred care.
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“Devolving the IT decision-making authority to local trusts is good news for patients, taxpayers and the more innovative healthcare providers such as Hytec,” said David Bryant, Hytec’s Managing Director.
“For many health trusts, national initiatives don’t adequately address the needs of their local communities. Giving GPs responsibility for commissioning will mean end-users having greater influence on the systems they adopt, which will enable them to better meet the needs of their patients.
We believe, as more and more clinicians do, that health professionals should have access to social care information and be able to make decisions based on having a complete 360⁰ view of a patient’s care history. This requires the sharing of clinical and social care data that is currently stored in different IT systems.
The review of national programmes and IT contracts will help to open up the market to more innovative solutions that can help trusts to drive efficiency savings and reduce costs. Trusts will now be able to roll up their sleeves and respond much more swiftly and appropriately to the health and social care needs of their local communities.
We will see a more agile approach to innovation where health trusts work in partnership with specialist healthcare ICT suppliers who are directly accountable for the solutions they deliver at a local level. In many cases the systems that clinicians have today are perfectly good – it’s just that they don’t have the infrastructure in place to be able to share information with other clinical and social care systems. We don’t need to completely re-invent the wheel, we just need to connect systems together. We’ve already demonstrated that we have the technologies to do that today.”
David Bryant, Managing Director, Hytec
David Bryant is an acknowledged expert in information security, networking and infrastructure development and has been Hytec's Managing Director since 1995. He joined the company in January 1981, as Software Support Manager, and has held various positions including Customer Services Manager and Sales Manager before becoming Sales Director in the team that undertook the MBO of Hytec in 1992.
Since Hytec became part of OLM Group in 2008, David has undertaken the role of consolidating all of the Group infrastructure products and services into a cohesive division, embracing solutions for Mobile, Systems Integration, Information Security and Infrastructure Management from offices in Oxford, Teddington, Newport and Glasgow.
David is also a Director of Socitm (The Society of IT Management) where he chairs the Commercial Board responsible for the oversight of Socitm Consulting and Socitm Insight.
About Hytec
Hytec (hytec.co.uk) is the technology and infrastructure business of OLM Group. It creates technology environments that help NHS trusts improve their processes, become more efficient, productive and ultimately transform services.
Specialising in IT security, infrastructure management and information sharing solutions,, Hytec works with health trusts in the design, implementation and operation of ICT platforms that support good information governance, data sharing and flexible working.
Recognised by CfH, Hytec’s accreditations include ISO 27001 (information security management) and ISO 9001 (quality management). The company is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a CLAS consultancy (CESG Listed Advisor Scheme), a TigerScheme company, a member of the BSI Consultant Programme and a Socitm member.
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