ICNet is a fully web based product, thus ensuring full accessibility for authorised users within the hospital network, and minimum load on the user's desktop. All data is held either on the server, or on the Pocket PCs (These should used in a non-wireless network environment).

Interfacing Experience

The ICNet team has excellent working relationships with all the main laboratory system providers in UK (due to their 100+ Worlswide ICNet installations). This has provided the team with extensive hands-on experience in creating interfaces with the many laboratory and Patient Information (HIS) systems including but not confined to:

• Apex / iLab
• I-Soft Lorenzo
• Clinisys
• EDS
• Masterlab/ LabCentre
• Telepath
• Triple G
• Technidata
• Mysis - Sunquest
• Meditech
• Cerner
• Quadramed
• Delphic
• Sonic Appollo
• SCC Soft
• Capita
• McKesson

Experience in implementing Patient Administration Systems includes both the Torex Clinicom and also the ISoft PAS software solutions.

Theatre interfaces include ISoft Theatreman and bespoke database solutions.

Mobile Technology

ICNet has been developed to be available on mobile technology (i.e. Pocket PCs) even when a wireless network is not available, as is the case for so many UK Hospitals.

Patient information of interest is downloaded onto the Pocket PC whilst in the cradle. Once downloaded, users can take the Pocket PC and access the data on it whilst at the bed side where notes about care and advice given are taken, and checklists of observations are completed. Once the ward rounds are completed details updated on the Pocket PC are updated back into the main ICNet server through synchronising in the cradle, thus ensuring single data entry.

IC/IT Report Recommendations

A key recommendation of the ICIT Report published in December 2005 states that compliance with the electronic Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) is mandatory. The report clarifies the key policies associated with eGIF to include:

• Alignment with the Internet
• Adoption of XML as the primary standard for data integration
• Adoption of the browser as the key interface

ICNet is the only service that is 100% web based, and thus 100% E-Gif compliant. In addition, ICNet also meets all the specifications of the ICRS Document issued by the UK Department of Health to LSPs implementing the UK NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), previously known as the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). Client Requirements

Server Requirements