CMS restructure for NHS Prodigy

An innovative collaboration between a health information provider and an enterprise content management vendor has improved access to medical guidance on the NHS Prodigy clinical information system.

Newcastle-based Schin supplies the Prodigy Knowledge service, a regularly updated clinical guidance service for clinicians. Prodigy Knowledge consists of more than 150 clinical “guidances”, which are stored in a detailed narrative form, as well as drug information on prescriptions, drug recommendations, references and citations for drug information ­- linking to the evidence and printable patient information leaflets.

These resources have been collected for a number of years in several formats, including a variety of databases. A team of up to 30 health informaticians, doctors, nurses and pharmacists create the specialist content.

Schin and its sister company i4U teamed up with CMS provider Librios to build a new system that would allow content to be re-used and published easily in book or web form. The combined system has ironed out the problems of maintaining multiple formats and versions of clinical information. The clinical guidances were first published in book form by Schin in November 2005.

Richard Hall, health informatician at Schin, said the development of the new system had to be collaborative. “Librios came out of the publishing field, but hadn’t encountered our medical publishing requirements.”

He added: “The focus on CMS has allowed us to restructure in a short time.” The project has resulted in an improved content management system for Schin to manage and publish clinical guidance. There are now plans to make the integrated content management system containing medical content commercially available in the future.

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