Healthcare

The continuing modernisation of the NHS puts greater emphasis than ever before on the role of technology in providing higher standards of patient-centric care. The NHS is one of the world’s most diverse and complex service organisations: successful transformation depends on understanding and meeting the needs of clinicians, patients and healthcare organisations alike, as well as the delivery of high quality technologies and services.

IBM works in partnership with the NHS and its suppliers to meet these challenges. We offer:

Industry-leading hardware, software and infrastructure solutions
A wide range of managed services to meet specific clinical needs
Pervasive healthcare solutions for communities, such as portals and telecare
Patient monitoring, asset monitoring, document management and other vital healthcare information solutions
Service and process design expertise to promote operational excellence
Services to help align technology with clinical needs, so that healthcare investments realise their full value at the point of service delivery

IBM is committed to the successful transformation of healthcare delivery in the UK, and our involvement in NHS projects is a key part of our involvement in the global healthcare industry. We offer our clients the benefit of best practice and expertise gained from decades of experience working with healthcare organisations all over the world.

News and features

St. James’s Hospital cuts inventory costs with SAP and IBM
To deliver maximum value for public money, St. James’s Hospital needs to keep tight control over its finances. Without integration between financial and materials management systems, the hospital faced delays and deficits.

Hospital Trust extends 17-year relationship with IBM to manage IT infrastructure
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust and IBM sign 1-Year, £520k agreement to manage Hospital Information System.

Healthcare 2015; Win-win or lose-lose? (PDF, 180KB)
IBM's point-of-view on the global healthcare industry.

Heightened responsiveness improves patient care with the Vocera wireless voice communication solution and IBM (PDF, 170 KB)
Today, leading medical facilities are turning to a wireless voice communication system from Vocera and IBM to reduce response times among clinicians.

National Geographic: The Genographic Project, Our History Within (US)
The project, with the help of IBM technology, looks at where we came from.

RFID: Real solutions for healthcare (PDF, 302 KB)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is already proving it can cut costs by enabling more efficient and timely tracking of goods in industrial and retail supply chains.Similarly, the healthcare community is now seeing tremendous benefits.

Extend the boundaries of your existing networks with Wireless Campus Solutions for Healthcare (PDF, 75 KB)
The rising cost of communications is draining critical hospital resources and leaving users frustrated at the lack of connectivity for the services and applications they desire most.