There’s a fresh buzz of activity surrounding the upcoming Welsh Intensive Care Information System (WICIS).
September has seen the installation of the equipment needed to bring the WICIS system direct to Welsh ICU’s. Newport’s Data Centre has received the physical servers that will allow data from a variety of existing systems like the Welsh Clinical Portal, to integrate with the WICIS application. The mirror “failover” data centre at Church Village has also been equipped. Plans are now being readied to install the key on-site components of WICIS at hospitals around Wales. The first ICU hospital to ‘go live’ will be Grange University Hospital, near Cwmbran in the summer of 2022.
WICIS will transform critical care by removing paper-based note taking at the bedside and automate data collection direct from the sophisticated monitors and devices used to support patients with life-threatening illness or injuries. With increasing pressure on intensive care services, reducing the administrative burden on NHS Wales staff will free-up more time for patient care.