iSoft has completed an upgrade of laboratory information systems at nine NHS trusts in Wales, under a £1 million contract agreed in September 2007
Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust this week became the final trust to be upgraded.
All nine report marked improvements in performance.
Under the contract, iSoft has moved the nine trusts to its latest laboratory solution for better performance and greater resilience.
It ensures that all NHS trusts in Wales are running the same version after North East Wales and Gwent Healthcare were upgraded last year under an existing contract.
Paul Richards, managing director of iSoft UK and Ireland, said: "Very close cooperation between iSoft and staff at each trust enabled us to complete this iSoft to the agreed schedule and consistently hit the deadlines for each trust within the overall programme".
North West Wales NHS Trust was one of the first to be upgraded.
The trust's laboratory systems manager Ian Kilbourn said: "We are now able to gather information in minutes rather than hours and the whole system is much more robust, with instant screen refresh.
"Administrative tasks have been streamlined and we have a degree of resilience not seen before, which is vital for a system that is an essential component for the clinical care of patients.
"Careful planning, plus the co-operation and flexibility of all staff involved, together with the skill and expertise of the iSOFT team achieved this complex task within the agreed time scale".
The technology refresh upgrades existing pathology systems, originally installed in the early 1990s and ensures that trusts have the updated hardware and system software to meet the demands of a modern pathology service.
The overall process was negotiated by Informing Healthcare, the Welsh Assembly government programme set up to improve patient care through better use of information and IT.
The nine NHS trusts are: Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Conwy and Denbighshire, Cardiff and Vale, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, North Glamorgan, North West Wales, Pembrokeshire and Derwen, and Pontypridd and Rhondda.
iSoft has 150 customers in the UK for laboratory information systems, giving it a 65% share of the UK market.
