Medilink News February Issue 2014 | Page 4

JOIN MEDILINK AT: WWW.MEDILINK.CO.UK/ MEMBERSHIP.ASPX A core goal of Medilink is to provide growth to the Healthcare Technology and related Life Sciences sector, its organisations and the people within them. Growth in these areas helps us to support the health and wealth of the nation, through better patient care, new treatments and the realisation of the inherent innovation and technology across academia, industry and the NHS. Medilink membership gives you access to expert consultancy services (PR, international, innovation and events) through to support on funding opportunities and a dedicated Customer Relationship Manager. Medilink has supported the growth of the sector for almost 20 years. In this special feature we’ll be concentrating on how our members use their membership to help them achieve their goals…and encourage you to make the most of your membership. MEMBERS WORKING TOGETHER SWITCHSTANCE AND NUMED Software development company Switchstance has developed a completely unique solution to help improve the integration of innovative diagnostic medical products and their results with key UK clinical systems, such as EMIS and TPP’s SystmOne. Switchstance collaborated with diagnostic medical product supplier Numed Healthcare on the project, with Numed currently supplying products and integration with the three leading clinical systems providers, including EMIS and TPP, which cover over 10,500 GP practices across the UK. Switchstance collaborated with Numed to redesign and streamline how its products integrate with key clinical systems to provide a futureproof, global platform within primary care. This creates overall process improvement as products from Numed such as blood pressure, ECG and Spirometry devices are integrated into the system. Numed previously had separate solutions for each of their products to integrate with each clinical system, which proved time consuming to maintain individually. The system developed with Switchstance provided significant time saving t