The Minister for Health and Community Care, Andy Kerr has signed a £300 million contract with the Atos Origin Alliance, to provide NHSScotland with end-to-end delivery of its principal IT services for the next 11 years.
Kerr will also open Atos Origin's new £7 million Data Centre in Livingston, a stable and highly secure environment, which will house NHSScotland's vital patient data.
The 17,000ft┬▓centre will provide NHSScotland with the ability to run its critical clinical applications such as the Emergency Care Summary, an electronic summary of basic information about a patient which may be needed in an emergency, health service payroll and nurse rostering systems.
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is a non-departmental public body that works to support Scotland's health and frontline patient care by delivering essential national and regional services to NHSScotland, negotiated the national IT services contract with the Atos Origin Alliance.
The Atos Origin Alliance, comprising Atos Origin, BT, IBM and Sopra Newell & Budge, is a unique partnership created to provide NHSScotland with the strongest team possible to support the Scottish Health Service of the future. Together, the Atos Origin Alliance has the capability to fulfil a wide spectrum of NHS requirements and the capacity to resource complex large-scale IT projects.