BT has considerable experience in healthcare IT. In the UK, it is one of the largest suppliers of IT services to the National Health Service (NHS). It is also playing a pivotal roll in the NHS National Programme for Information Technology, the world’s largest civilian IT programme, which via new computer systems and services links local doctors and community services to hospitals to deliver better, safer care to patients in England.
Under this programme, BT is delivering three contracts, comprising N3, a broadband network with more than 20,000 secure connections between hospitals and doctors throughout England; the Spine, one of the world’s biggest transactional databases and messaging systems containing more than 50 million records; and in greater London it is delivering a large-scale upgrade to the IT across all care settings in 74 health trusts to enable the creation of an integrated care record for more than 7.5 million patients.
Internationally BT is also delivering a contract to improve the exchange of information between hospitals, outpatient clinics and general practitioners with consortia representing three of the least developed regions of Hungary.
BT Health is part of BT Global Services.
