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Health will be revealing a ‘granular level reforecast’ of replacing the Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system soon. The Committee said it will be able to provide these figures in ‘due course’ as the work is currently underway.
It comes as the long-awaited replacement of Health’s historic EPR to a new patient system was pushed back from the tail end of this year to 2025.
The EPR programme is a key piece of digital infrastructure that is used to centralise and digitise service user data from across Health and Social Care, the Medical Specialist Group and the Guernsey Therapy Group.
In 2020 the States agreed to spend £20million to replace the current system – TRAKCare – which is supported by a company called InterSystems.
Questions have since been asked about the delay, the cost ramifications, and the viability of the current roadmap.
On the delay, the President of Health, and Social Care, Deputy Al Brouard, said: “As has been communicated publicly, there is the need to extend the October ‘go live’ date for the first implementation stage, and that initial indications at this time are that it will be necessary to move Release 1 to the end of Quarter 1 of 2025.
“The wider implications, including potential cost impacts, are currently being evaluated and the results will be communicated through the EPR Programme Board, the SRO and the Committee, per normal governance processes.”
Deputy Gavin St Pier, who now sits on the HSC Committee, asked its President what the current estimates are of future revenue ‘impacts’.
“A granular level reforecast of the Programme is currently underway and a critical piece of which includes the on-going revenue costs post-implementation,” said Deputy Brouard
“We shall be able to provide the figures in due course, as soon as this work has been completed.”
Deputy St Pier also asked about the ongoing cost of supporting TRAKCare, to which Deputy Brouard said the information is commercially sensitive. Deputy Brouard also said the cost of the integration engines that currently funnel information from various applications into TRAKCare is commercially sensitive.
Support for the current EPR ends on 31 March 2025, but this can be extended in various increments if needed.
The questions from Deputy St Pier, which can be read ONLINE, also revealed that more than £350,000 in Change Control Notices from current suppliers has been incurred so far.
“The main body of work falls in Release 1 and the primary focus has been to understand the timelines for this first release,” continued Deputy Brouard.
“The changes to the timing of Release 1 will have knock on effects to the later releases.
“These impacts are currently being evaluated and the results will be communicated through the EPR Programme Board, the SRO and the Committee, per normal governance processes.”
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