UHB Digital Dictation & Speech Recognition Solution - Market Engagement

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to engage with suppliers interested in its upcoming requirement for a Trust-wide Digital Dictation & Speech Recognition Solution.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), which manages and operates Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Solihull Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Birmingham Chest Clinic, is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. The Trust is a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. It has expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and provides the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. It provides a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK.

UHB has a requirement to procure a Trust-wide Digital Dictation & Speech Recognition Solution. The solution should include:

A full letters workflow application, from dictation through to distribution

The ability for in-house transcription through administrative teams

The ability for letters to be outsourced for transcription to existing supplier

The ability for speech recognition to be used within the letters workflow application

The ability for speech recognition to be used in other applications, e.g. PICS

Integration with the Trust’s core EHR applications to allow for speech recognition to be used for contemporaneous noting

Compatible with hardware already in use within the Trust (Philips, Olympus)

Android and iOS mobile compatibility in line with the Trust’s chosen devices

Compatible with Trust remote working solutions (VPN)

Suppliers who are able to offer solutions relevant to this requirement are invited to express an interest and respond to a market engagement questionnaire. Further details on how to do this are contained within the additional information section of this notice.