Singapore to tender out e-system for GPs

Saturday, 31 July 2010

Healthcare

By Jianggan Li | 22 December 2009

The Singapore government is inviting vendors to submit proposals to ‘design, develop, supply, deliver, install, test, commission and support’ a clinical management system (CMS) cum electronic medical record (EMR) system for general practitioners.

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A stakeholder information session was held on Friday, 18 December and the government requires all proposals to be submitted by 21 Jan 2010.

The GP Clinic Electronic Medical Record and Operation System (“Project CLEO”), will comprise of a CMS and a GP-oriented EMR, with the focus of ‘facilitating better quality and safer patient care in addition to optimizing clinic operations for better and more efficient patient service’, according to the Information Systems Division of Ministry of Health Holdings (MOHH), subsidiary of the Ministry of Health which takes care of the country’s public hospitals.

MOHH is also responsible for the development of the country’s National Electronic Health Record (EHR), an ambitious project to realise ‘one patient, one record’ in the island-state.

CLEO will be able link to the EHR system and support interactions between GPs and their partners such as hospitals and specialist centres. It is expected to be implemented in three phrases with the first one targeted by end of 2010.

Originally the tender for the procurement for the national EHR, including solutions, services, integration, etc., was planned to be awarded in November 2009. However it has thus been delayed. Sarah Muttitt, CIO of MOHH described to FutureGov the process as “very good but very demanding.”

“The key to the success of EHR is that the ontology design needs to allow efficient information flow and usability,” commented an insider to FutureGov. “This could be very hard and slow process.”

“Albeit our plan is quite ambitious, with limited time, it is a reasonable plan,” he added.