Case Study
Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service
Overview Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service (KMHIS) provides IT services to NHS organ izations across Kent, including major acute trusts, commissioner and provider organiza tions, and GPs. Headquartered in Maidstone, the organization supports a user base in ex cess of 30,000 and employs over 250 people. Challenge Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service (KMHIS) faced the challenge of managing the diverse IT needs of its 30,000 strong user base. “With no centralized desktop management solution, our desktop engineers had to travel to each site in turn to manually install new soft ware and application upgrades,” said Debbie Hawkes, Operations Director, KMHIS. “We recognized that by automating this process we could not only benefit from standardization, but co