In January 2021 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust selected Airslie Ltd’s Renalware 2.0 for the newly-merged Mid Essex, Basildon & Thurrock University and Southend Hospitals.

After months of collaboration by the Airslie and MSE IT teams, Renalware was launched at the three trust hospitals over the weekend of 4-5 December 2021. The process had been automated and tested nightly before the actual launch; this included the crucial data migration scripts which imported the legacy data from the three different sites. (One site was running Proton and the other two used eMedRenal.)

The Renalware version installed at MSE contains numerous new features including most notably: SNOMED encoding of problem lists, a “nagging” function for special patient alerts, and dynamic charting of pathology and other data. (The complete Renalware features and technical specifications can be found on the Renalware 2.0 page.)

The MSE Renalware installation is hosted in Microsoft Azure rather than on-site at the hospitals. Once configured, this greatly streamlined the process of developing the MSE version, the associated HL7 feeds, the data migration scripts, and the testing thereof. Airslie are in discussions with Barts to shift their Renalware system into Azure as well.

MSE now joins Barts and The Royal London and Kings College Hospital Renalware user group. Airslie is currently in discussions with several other health providers regarding installations at their sites.

The migration scripts were prepared by Nicholas Fan (who supervised the process during the Barts and The Royal London launch in 2019) and his colleague Oliver Mann. These will now be available for use in any future Renalware installations at sites using Proton or eMedRenal.