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 and viewed using wireless mobile technology (laptops or tablets) or via the networked PCs.

Interfacing Experience:

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

Laboratory Information Systems

Patient Administration / Hospital Information Systems

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 many 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 patient visits are completed, the details updated on the Pocket PC are updated back into the main ICNet server through synchronising in the cradle, thus ensuring single data entry.

Tablet PCs and laptops can also be used in a mobile environment when wireless technology. Screen resolutions of 1024 * 768 are required.

UK Department of Health Recommendations:

A key recommendation of the IC/IT Report published in December 2005 by the UK Health Protection Agency 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).

Hardware Requirements:

Client Requirements

Server Requirements