Last year, the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced plans around digitising records in the NHS; a story which is familiar to our customer St Helens and Knowsley NHS trust. At the beginning of 2012, we announced that it was the first trust in the UK to go paperless, supported by EMC.
At the time, Phil Corrin, deputy chief information officer at St Helens & Knowsley Health Informatics stated that: "We always look to implement best-of-breed technology throughout the hospital, a fact that has won us awards within the healthcare and IT industry. We felt that EMC wasn't just offering us a short-term fix to our storage problems, but actually helping us develop a long-term storage strategy. Choosing VMAX wasn't just about us being able to store more information, but about how we can more effectively manage that storage.
"Patient care is at the centre of every technology decision we take and we need to ensure that medical staff have access to the information they need, whenever they need it. As the trust becomes increasingly digitised, our storage requirements are only going to increase, but we know that EMC VMAX will help us to rise to the challenge,"
After the government announcement, Neil Darvill, director of informatics at St Helens and Knowsley, told Guardian's Debbie Andalo about the latest developments at the trust and highlighted the project with EMC as a model for other trusts to follow.
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