In a pre-tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union on 9 March 2010, NSS said that it is "considering options" for its planned Scottish Health Protection Information Management Solution.
The system, ideally a commercial off the shelf product, will be used across organisational boundaries to support the health protection activities of NHS boards.
The functionality of the system will be expected to cover the case management of incidents and of patients involved in investigations. For scientific users the system will cover national surveillance, analysis and reporting.
NSS intends to begin the process within the next 12- 18 months, depending on funding available.
The pre-tender notice contained no mention of cost. A spokesperson said this was "partly because we will find out from the responses we get back how much a system of this type will cost".
Separately, Scotland's phone and online health advice service NHS24 has announced a contract extension for its customer relationship management system. Its deal with Clinical Solutions, originally signed in March 2007, will now run until 2012.
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